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UK Visa Portal exposed thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies — then called the lawyers on us

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UK Visa Portal exposed thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies — then called the lawyers on us

A website called UK Visa Portal publicly exposed thousands of passports and selfie photos of applicants who paid the site to obtain a U.K. immigration visa, TechCrunch has learned.

An anonymous person notified TechCrunch about the security lapse, saying that the website was exposing at least 100,000 documents from people who uploaded their passports and selfies to the website as part of the application process.

Originally reported by TechCrunch