Amy Clare-Martin reports:
Army leaders have launched an inquiry after the identities of soldiers in the SAS were revealed in a fresh data breach.
Details about the elite unit, part of the UK special forces, are usually kept so secret that its members are barred for life from discussing their involvement unless they receive prior approval.
News of the breach comes just days after it emerged the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had taken out an unprecedented superinjunction after up to 100,000 lives were put at risk of reprisals from the Taliban in a catastrophic data leak.
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In yet another data lapse, The Sunday Times reported that details of at least 20 special forces soldiers recruited from the Grenadier Guards have been publicly available online for a decade.
In response, General Sir Roly Walker, the head of the army, has ordered an “immediate review” of the data-sharing arrangements that led to the incident.
Read more at The Independent.