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

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… 

AI chatbot’s simple ‘123456’ password risked exposing personal data of millions of McDonald’s job applicants

AI chatbot’s simple ‘123456’ password risked exposing personal data of millions of McDonald’s job applicants

Security researchers found that they could access the personal information of 64 million people who had applied for a job at McDonald’s, in large part by logging into the company’s AI job hiring chatbot with…