UK Visa Portal website leaks thousands of user passport data and photos online
- Third-party UK Visa Portal website exposed 100,000 docs in an unsecured cloud repository
- Cybercriminals with access to the affected PII could conduct identity theft or fraud
- Victims advised to protect and monitor accounts, and await notification
UK Visa Portal, a third-party website separate from the official government offering, has reportedly left thousands of highly sensitive documents exposed in a major data leak.
Affected documents and details include passports, photos, verification selfies and other application information, leaving victims widely open to identity theft and potential financial fraud.
The issue happened as a result of documents being stored on an unsecured server without password protection, meaning anyone with a direct link could access and view them.
UK Visa Portal applications exposed
The data exposure was caused specifically by a misconfigured cloud storage repository that was entirely public – but worse than that, it's also been revealed that the file directory structure allowed...
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