A Fake UK Visa Site Left 100,000 Passports Wide Open. Then Sent Lawyers Instead of a Fix. (opens in new tab)

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

A third-party UK visa site exposed passports and selfies on a public AWS server. It’s not official GOV.UK and affected at least 100,000 documents. UK Visa Portal is not run by the British government. It’s a third-party service, apparently operated by a UAE-registered company called Active Leadgen LLC, that charges fees to help people apply […]

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