UK Visa Portal Data Leak Exposes Thousands of Passports and Selfies (techcrunch.com)

• Thousands of passports and selfies of UK visa applicants exposed
• Leak caused by misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket and back-end bug
• Company responded with legal and PR, not remediation; data secured after publication

"A third-party website, UK Visa Portal, exposed thousands of passports and selfies of UK visa applicants due to a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. TechCrunch discovered the leak after an anonymous tip, but the company responded by sending lawyers and a PR firm instead of fixing the issue. The data was secured only after the article was published. The site is not affiliated with the UK government."