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UK Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants' passports and selfies online — and hasn't fixed the leak | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] elmicha@feddit.org 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

A website called UK Visa Portal ... is not affiliated with the U.K. government, and some have complained that they mistakenly paid a fee to this company instead of using the official GOV.UK website.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 6 points 17 hours ago

So, entirely outside the purview of the government then, excepting that there is possible fraud going on