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A confidential source has revealed an official investigation that British authorities left behind classified technology enabling the Taliban to track down local individuals who worked with western forces.

Information Leak Puts Thousands at Risk

The source, known as Person A, explained that people concerned by the information breach were instructed to move homes and alter their mobile numbers to protect themselves from the ruling authorities.

Lawmakers are looking into the Conservative government's management of a massive leak of personal details affecting nearly 19,000 Afghans who had requested to relocate to Britain to avoid the regime.

How the Leak Happened

A data file including confidential details, comprising identities, phone numbers and occasionally family information, was mistakenly released by a worker working at British military command in last year.

The breach was discovered in late 2023, when identities of several individuals who had sought to relocate to the UK appeared on Facebook.

Militant Technology

It appears there is a false assumption that militant forces lack comparable resources that allied forces use,” Person A informed lawmakers.

All equipment was abandoned in Afghanistan; they have it. Once they acquire a contact number, they are able to track your precise location. That's precisely what the unit accomplished.”

When questioned about if militant forces owned sophisticated technology, the whistleblower declared: “They've got everything.”

Consequences of the Security Lapse

Preliminary research submitted to the committee estimated that approximately fifty kin and colleagues of people concerned by the incident had been executed.

A superinjunction about the incident was enacted in August 2023 and restricted relevant facts about it from public disclosure until July 2025.

Protective Actions

Because she was restricted, Person A and the aid group she was working with informed affected households they were working with that they had “concerns that certain devices had been compromised”.

“Our suggestion was that they moved where feasible and switched their mobile numbers. Those were the two main details that, if the Taliban acquired these details, would result in them being traced,” the source testified.

Disputed Conclusions

The source argued that government assessment conducted by an ex-government employee had been mistaken to state that the obtaining of the dataset by the Taliban was “unlikely to substantially change present danger”.

“The crucial point is that these individuals are not confronting militant forces; they are in hiding. The primary issue involves former occupations.”

The source explained horrific abuse experienced by concerned people, comprising electric shock torture, waterboarding, and violent assaults.

“There are cases of toddlers who have had limbs fractured to try to get relatives to say where someone is,” she testified.