Civil society groups are urging MPs to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), ...

MPs have vowed to “thoroughly investigate” the government data breach that put the lives of nearly 100,000 Afghans at risk of being killed by the Taliban. The defence secretary apologised to those ...

Hundreds of Ministry of Defence (MoD) data breaches have been revealed as questions intensify over its ability to keep sensitive information safe in the wake of the Afghan data leak. The latest MoD ...

Two government departments face enforcement action from the UK data protection watchdog for between them losing more than 25 million people's details. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is ...

The Ministry of Defence offered to expedite the review of a rejected resettlement application of an Afghan national after he posted sensitive details from a data breach on Facebook, the BBC ...

A huge Ministry of Defence data breach put the lives of up to 100,000 Afghans at risk and prompted thousands of them to be evacuated to Britain under a covert £7bn scheme – then was kept secret for ...

The chief civil servant at the Ministry of Defence will be replaced in the wake of the Afghan data breach, the department has announced. The move follows one of the worst UK data breaches for decades ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s official government auditor has questioned the Ministry of Defence’s handling of a huge data leak that ...

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