The UK government is facing a multi-million-pound class action-style lawsuit from Afghans affected by the largest data breach in British history.
As lawyers prepare to sue for compensation, the British public is astonished at the scale of government incompetence—including an unprecedented superinjunction and resettling thousands of Afghans in Britain without any meaningful or democratic consultation.
At the time of writing, Manchester lawyers Barings Law are representing nearly 900 individuals out of 18,714 Afghans on the leaked dataset against the Ministry of Defence.
The government bill for compensation alone could easily top £1 billion (€1.16 billion), not including legal expenses. Estimated costs may eventually reflect the payouts received in previous data security cases,
Many of the names on the leaked dataset had never worked with British forces in the first place, but instead made speculative asylum applications once the Taliban retook power. As Reform UK leader Nigel Farage put it, “The more we learn, the worse it gets.”
