In one incident last year, the names and bank details of 272,000 staff were breached when one of its systems was hacked

Grant Shapps claims he was ‘surprised’ gagging order was in place for ‘so long’ – despite fighting to keep superinjunction in place

More than 100 names of British government personnel were also exposed by the leak

Exclusive: Rayan and his extended family have welcomed two new babies in the time they have been waiting to be brought to the UK

Fresh questions have been raised over why the unprecedented gagging order was maintained for so long when the level of risk to Afghans was known last year

Revealed: Elite troops who fought alongside UK troops were put at risk of danger after personal data was shared in catastrophic breach

The Ministry of Defence used a super-injunction to cover up a major data breach that put the lives of nearly 100,000 Afghans at risk of being killed by the Taliban.

Email blunder triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

Email blunder potentially put up to 100,000 people at risk and triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

For almost two years, an unprecedented order has kept a catastrophic government data breach secret

An unprecedented gagging order prevented details of the government breach being revealed for more than 600 days

More than 16,000 Afghans were secretly brought to the UK in the largest covert peacetime evacuation after the MoD put them in danger of being targeted by the Taliban. Social affairs correspondent Holly Bancroft reports

Social affairs correspondent Holly Bancroft was one of a handful of journalists who knew about a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data leak – but an unprecedented legal order meant it could not be revealed. For two years, they battled to lift the draconian measures

After a leak at the Ministry of Defence, officials faced a race to keep up to 100,000 Afghans from the Taliban’s clutches – with two years of court fights and rescue plans projected to cost billions, all hidden from MPs and the public. Now, after the lifting of an unprecedented superinjunction, the full story can finally be told. Social affairs correspondent Holly Bancroft reports