The findings come in a major report by the House of Commons Defence Committee, titled Shifting heaven and earth? The Afghan data breach and resettlement schemes, published on 30 July, five years after the fall of Kabul and one year after public disclosure of the breach. Secrecy has been too easily used as a shield against proper accountability in areas far removed from sensitive operations. The overarching conclusion returns to the human dimension of the episode:“But the central lesson of this episode is that a foreseeable MOD data failure became a wider failure of governance. A breach that should have been prevented was followed by a response shaped by prolonged secrecy, weak accountability, fragmented delivery and inadequate challenge.