Chaos and fear as Afghans exposed in huge data breach left in limbo by UK
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When the Ministry of Defense fell into the E -Post, Qargha’s heart jumped. After four years of waiting, he hoped that it could finally escape the Taliban’s threat and could be brought to security in England.
Instead, it was a news that the government had revealed personal information and kept it in the dark for about two years.
He’s already afraid of his life, and now he’il take extra measures even when going to a walk or shopping.
When a mode official sends a secret database to reliable persons in February 2022, the names and contact information that occurred in the disaster data leakage that occurred is one of the 18,700 Afghan.
Approximately 16,000 Afghan affected by the violation, as part of a secret operation, resulted in moving to the UK, one of the online of one of the online database in August 2023 was discovered.
The news of the violation encouraged the government to use an unprecedented super gunkitation to keep violations as a secret to prevent information from spreading further.
If the ministers were news of data violations, they would have claimed that the lives of 100,000 people were at the risk of retaliation, but The investigation managed by the government concluded that it was not possible to define the data set later for targeting.
Just before the order of Gaging was finally lifted on Tuesday, the mode tried to send E -mail to tens of thousands of Afghan, and was sacrificed.
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Qargha, a former member of the Afghan security forces in Afghanistan, who was desperate for the news that the mode case workers finally made a decision on the case, thought that E -mail will finally confirm the conformity approval.
But he was shocked when he discovered the truth.
He said Independent: “I am very worried about the leakage of my personal information and I understood more than Afghan International TV. They said that this leak will risk many lives.
“My daily life will be more difficult now. I live in a safe house and I know today or tomorrow, if I need to go to the hospital or get help for anything, now I must be more cautious.
The former soldier applied for asylum in the UK in 2021, but in the summer of 2023, he was rejected with many members of the former Afghan expert units. During this period, a UK Special Forces Contact Officer supervised the blanket rejection of such 1,585 applications.
Qargha expects this decision to be reviewed, and Limo receives its wages as long as it continues to wait for pain.
“My old house was already raid twice. It affects me mentally, has to wait for a long time. Everyone knows us and the work we do before the Taliban before it takes over, so my life is hard, the level of stress is over, everything is over,” he said.
Atf444, a former member of the Afghan Special Forces Unit, atf444, who served next to the British who was left behind after the withdrawal, is still waiting for aid application to be reviewed.
After receiving two warnings from the mode, Akthar said that there were “many questions”. “I don’t understand, this third world is not a country. He said. Independent.
“We’re already at risk and they put us at risk. There are many questions, but what can we do about it – nothing.
“Whatever before, we must take this warning to three times. Fear is like hell right now.
“I have become very limited. In advance, if I had taken 50 percent measures for my safety, I should make sure I have made it 100 percent,” he added. Last week, the members of the Taliban began raids the door of the area where he was in the door, so he jumped into a car with a friend and drove to a different state for 12 hours.
He also needs to work to get money to support members of his family. “This makes me desperate,” he added: “My family did nothing to anyone and they don’t deserve to die”.
Another former member of the Afghan security forces, said that stress has “turned into depression” and warned him that his knowledge was violated. “My stress level is very high, all I can do is expect my application to be processed,” he said.
Independent On Wednesday, hundreds of Afghan special forces leaked the details of the soldiers in a violation of mode.
18,500 people affected by the leak were brought to the UK or received 5,400 approval letters on the road, but it still needs to be released.
Ministers, MOD’s re -settlement scheme (Arab) has been closed to new applicants, although the current cases will still be committed, he said. However, no time zone was given for evacuation, which has left the affected in the limo.
A MOD spokesman: “We will not comment on individual cases.
“This government is determined by the Parliament to promise those who are suitable for displacement and re -settling in Afghanistan.
“We aim to see our devotion to those who are suitable for the ENP until the end of the parliament. The appropriate Afghans and their families will continue to come to England for the predictable future.”
Names were changed for security reasons.
