After an agonising four-year wait, he hoped that this would finally be confirmation that he could escape the threat of the Taliban and be brought to safety in the UK.Instead, it was news that the government had exposed his personal information – and kept him in the dark about it for nearly two years.

Details of more than 100 British officials were in the data, which may have fallen into the hands of the Taliban.

A former British Paratrooper who spent more than a decade serving in numerous operations across Afghanistan has warned that the data breach will pose a security threat for years to come.

Hundreds of UK 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 breach.

Johnny Mercer, the former veterans minister, who was covered by the super-injunction because of his knowledge of the events, told the BBC the breach was representative of the "chaos" around the relocation process, and the individual brought to the UK had used the data to get in.

A huge military data breach led to Afghan migrants bringing more than 20 family members to Britain, despite previously being rejected for asylum. Officials were left scrambling to find accommodation following the leak,

The former army officer said that even with "all his suffering," he does not regret helping the UK military. | ITV National News

The revelation of a major data leak and subsequent relocation of thousands of Afghans to the UK has raised serious questions.