Passport leak on UK Visa Portal: thousands of documents and selfies exposed online

Colleagues, a cyber‑security alert: UK Visa Portal publicly exposes applicants' passports and selfies — the breach remains unresolved.

- TechCrunch reports at least 100,000 documents uploaded by users.
- The site is not government‑affiliated and, per complaints, charged fees instead of GOV.UK.
- No executive contacts or vulnerability reporting channel; TechCrunch received only lawyer/PR responses, with no executive engagement.

Why it matters: exposed passport data greatly increases fraud and identity‑theft risk. I advise using only the official government website.

How do you assess the risk of using paid intermediaries?

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