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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… 

Money transfer app Duc exposed thousands of driver’s licenses and passports to the open web

Money transfer app Duc exposed thousands of driver’s licenses and passports to the open web

A publicly accessible Amazon-hosted storage server allowed anyone with a web browser to access potentially hundreds of thousands of people’s personal data without needing a password. This included driver’s licenses, passports, and other personal information…