More than 100 British officials, including members of the Special Forces and the MI6 Information Service, have been exposed to a severe leakage of data that remains under investigation.

The violation, which also jeopardized by the lives of thousands of British Afghan associates, remained secret under the “super-injunction” until it was partially lifted, allowing the scandal to be publicized.

This prohibition was partially lifted on Thursday by a judge of the Supreme Court, allowing the media to disclose that confidential personal information of special forces and agents had been registered in the leaked database.

The government had already admitted on Tuesday that almost 19,000 Afghans who had applied for relocation to Britain due to their cooperation with the British forces during the 20 -year war in Afghanistan had accidentally leaked.

Many of them are estimated to be at serious risk of injury or even death, as the Taliban seeks retaliation against those who have worked with the Western forces.

According to the BBC, a man whose request for relocation was initially rejected was finally transferred to Britain when he posted names from the database on Facebook and implied that he could reveal the rest.

The Ministry of Defense refused to comment on the actions of the particular person, but said that anyone is transferred to Britain through the relevant relocation programs “undergoing strict security checks”.

The discovery of the leak in 2023 forced the government to secretly create a special resettlement program, the so -called “Afghanistan Response Route” (ARR), but not informed by the affected, despite the fact that they were in danger. 4,500 people have already been relocated through the program and another 2,400 is expected, with a total cost of about £ 850 million.

The leak came from an employee to the Special Forces Headquarters in London, who accidentally sent an email with over 30,000 relocation applications to an out -of -government person, believing that he sent data to just 150 people.

The prohibition of disclosing data on the leakage of data of the Special Forces and the Secret Services was lifted on Thursday, after a compromise between the Ministry of Defense and a group of media.

Defense Minister John Hilly described the leak as a “serious administrative error” and admitted that it was “only one of the many data losses” related to Afghan relocation programs.

The opposition spokesman for defense issues apologized to the previous conservative government, which was in power when the leak happened.

The Ministry of Defense refuses to reveal how many people in Afghanistan may have been damaged by the leak. The Taliban government said on Thursday that it has not arrested or attended any of those who are in the leak.

However, relatives of the Afghans named in the leak told the BBC that they were afraid of their families in the country, with one of them reporting that the Taliban has intensified their relatives after the leak.