UK Visa Portal allegedly exposed 100,000+ passport and selfie files, turning visa paperwork into identity-fraud fuel.
Key takeaways
- Thousands of people who thought they were submitting sensitive immigration documents through a visa-related website had passports, selfies, and location data expos...
- The exposure hit applicants who used UK Visa Portal, a third-party site that is not affiliated with the U.K. government, according to TechCrunch. The most expo...
- Applicants faced a biometric exposure, not a routine website leak
- The central risk is the combination. A passport image alone is sensitive. A selfie alone is sensitive. Together, they become a portable identity package.
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