The witness, anonymised as Person A, described discovering the leak, warning officials, and later being served with a super-injunction that prevented them from speaking publicly about the breach or even acknowledging its existence.
The Committee also released correspondence from the Speakers of both Houses on how the injunction affected parliamentary functions.
Person A told MPs they became involved in helping former Afghan security personnel during the fall of Kabul in 2021, initially assisting with paperwork before handling cases across a wide network of units. They said the breach came to light when a family they were supporting saw sensitive information posted anonymously on Facebook. Person A recalled that the poster claimed to hold tens of thousands of entries from an internal database. They said they immediately raised the alarm through a government contact.
The transcript records Person A saying “we told them on 14 August… we knew it was bad.” They received no immediate response. They said the first formal contact came weeks later, during a meeting in which they were unexpectedly served with a super-injunction. Person A told the Committee “I had to have it explained to me what it meant… it literally affected every single day of my life.”
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