【新闻趣读】英国情报界遭遇"史上最尴尬数据泄露"——阿富汗数据库被黑，连MI6和SAS特工的名字都被扒了个底朝天！这堪称自1999年MI6叛逃特工汤姆林森泄密事件后，英国政府最严重的一次"名单大放送"。不过军情六处表示淡定：名字可以改，脸可以整，只要没泄露生物识别数据就还能玩"变脸游戏"。最惨的是那些阿富汗线人，英国特种部队倒是安全得很——毕竟恐怖分子总不能顺着网线来砍人吧？（MI6局长：这次数据泄露都一年多了才被发现...那个，我们最近在招IT主管，薪资面议！）
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**How bad is Afghan data breach for MI6 and SAS?**
阿富汗数据泄露对军情六处和特种空勤团影响有多严重？
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12小时前 弗兰克·加德纳 安全事务记者
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**On the face of it, the Afghan data breach is very bad indeed. It is arguably the worst leak of secret UK government names since the former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson went rogue and published a list online containing dozens of names of MI6 officers in 1999. For a case officer in the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), having your name and details outed in public is potentially a career-killer. That said, names can be changed, forged or disguised. What cannot be is biometric data - something increasingly used in counter-intelligence to uncover and catch spies - and there is no indication so far that UK officers have had this data leaked as well.**
表面看来，阿富汗数据泄露确实非常严重。这可以说是自1999年前军情六处特工理查德·汤姆林森叛变并在线公布数十名军情六处官员名单以来，英国政府最严重的机密姓名泄露事件。对军情六处(MI6)的行动官员而言，姓名和详细信息被公开可能意味着职业生涯终结。不过名字可以更改、伪造或伪装，而生物识别数据则无法更改——这些数据在反间谍行动中越来越常用于识别和抓捕间谍——目前尚无迹象表明英国官员的这些数据也遭泄露。
**For serving and former members of the highly secretive Special Air Service (SAS) and Special Boat Service (SBS), leaks like this one can, in theory, expose them to the risk of threat to life, given the lethal, covert operations some will have taken part in that may have involved the deaths or capture of individuals. The physical risk resulting from this leak to those members of UK Special Forces whose names were on the leaked dataset is judged to be minimal. Those who face the greatest risk are Afghans still in Afghanistan. The revelation that, in addition to the thousands of leaked names and details of potentially vulnerable Afghans, there are 100 or more involving British operatives is certainly shocking. But this"unauthorised data breach" was - belatedly - discovered as far back as August 2023. So that has given the UK intelligence and special forces communities nearly two years in which to come up with ways to mitigate this disaster and adopt whatever protective measures they can, for both Afghans and Brits on the leaked dataset.**
对现役和退役的高度机密特种空勤团(SAS)及特种舟艇团(SBS)成员而言，理论上此类泄露可能使其面临生命威胁，因为他们参与的致命秘密行动可能导致人员死亡或被俘。评估认为，对名单遭泄露的英国特种部队成员而言，实际人身风险很小。面临最大风险的是仍在阿富汗的阿富汗人。除数千名潜在易受攻击的阿富汗人姓名和详细信息外，还有100多名英国特工信息遭泄露的消息确实令人震惊。但这一"未经授权的数据泄露"早在2023年8月就被发现——虽然发现得有点晚。这给了英国情报界和特种部队近两年时间想办法减轻灾难影响，并为泄露名单上的阿富汗人和英国人采取各种保护措施。
（翻译策略说明：
1. 保留"MI6"、"SAS"等专有机构缩写
2."biometric data"译为专业术语"生物识别数据"
3. 使用"变脸游戏"等形象化表述增强可读性
4. 军事术语如"covert operations"译为"秘密行动"
5. 时间表述强调"近两年"以突出应对时长
6. 直接引语保持官方文件严谨语气）
