“By issuing this fine and sharing the lessons from this breach, I want to make clear to all organisations that there is no substitute for being prepared. “I welcome the MoD’s remedial steps taken and its collaboration with my office to ensure its bulk email policies and processes are improved so such errors are not repeated. When the level of risk and harm to people heightens, so must the response. “While the situation on the ground in the summer of 2021 was very challenging and decisions were being made at pace, that is no excuse for not protecting people’s information who were vulnerable to reprisal and at risk of serious harm. This was a particularly egregious breach of the obligation of security owed to these people, thus warranting the financial penalty my office imposes today. John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner, said: “This deeply regrettable data breach let down those to whom our country owes so much. 'Exceptional' British soldier, 32, dies while off-duty in Kenya
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