The personal details of British spies and special forces personnel were included in the Afghan data breach that led to an unprecedented superinjunction, it has emerged.
It was previously reported that a list accidentally sent in an insecure email by a military official contained information relating to almost 19,000 Afghans who helped to support British forces in the fight against the Taliban.
Following the lifting of the two-year superinjunction on Tuesday, it has been revealed that the document also held data relating to more than 100 British people.
They included MI6 spies as well as special forces and SAS personnel.
The data breach, which happened in February 2022, was only discovered by the government when an extract was posted on Facebook 18 months later.
Then-Defence Secretary Ben Wallace asked a judge for an injunction to prevent the information contained in the dataset being published.
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However, the judge instead placed the case under a superinjunction, preventing any details about the breach or the injunction itself from being published.
Meanwhile, the largest covert evacuation in peacetime history was launched to get Afghans out of the country, out of concern their lives could be at risk from the Taliban.
The programme, named the Afghanistan Response Route, has cost around £400 million so far and could cost around £850 million by the time it ends.
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