UK Defense Seeks £2.5B for Data Breach, Afghan Resettlement

0:00UK's story is making news on February 27th brought to you by NordVPN. If you use public Wi-Fi or care by your privacy online, NordVPN helps keep your connection secure across all your devices, links in the episode description. UK defense leaders are requesting about 2.5 billion pounds in extra funding to cover various expenses, including compensation for a major. Data breach that endangered thousands of Afghans. This massive sum came to light in a recent Treasury report, which revealed that officials had held back key details from auditors at the National Audit Office. The breach happened back in February 2022, when an official accidentally sent personal details of 18,700. 14 Afghans supporters of the UK to an insecure email address, putting them at risk from Taliban reprisals. It took the Ministry of Defense until August 2023 to spot the mistake, leading to urgent secret flights that brought many of those.

1:00Afghans to the UK and housed them on military bases. Now, the full Afghan resettlement program is projected to cost between 5.5 billion and 6 billion pounds overall, with up to 8. 150 million pounds tied directly to fixing the fallout from that data leak, as officials seek parliamentary approval to move forward.