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UK Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak

UK Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak

Published by skeptic

A website called UK Visa Portal is publicly exposing the passports and selfie photos of applicants who signed up and paid the site to obtain a U.K immigration visa, TechCrunch has learned. An anonymous person notified TechCrunch about the security lapse, saying that the website is exposing at least 100,000 documents from people who uploaded their passports and selfies to the website as part of the application process. The website is not affiliated with the U.K. government, and some have complained that they mistakenly paid a fee to this company instead of using the official GOV.UK website. TechCrunch confirmed that UK Visa Portal is the source of the data leak and verified the authenticity of the exposed data by contacting affected individuals to ask if their information was accurate. UK Visa Portal does not have a way to report security issues through its website, nor does its website provide names or contact information for the company’s management. TechCrunch sent an email to the address listed on UK Visa Portal’s website to alert the company that …

The Ballad Of Wallis Island stars on becoming a word-of-mouth hit – and asking A-listers for selfies | Ents & Arts News

The Ballad Of Wallis Island stars on becoming a word-of-mouth hit – and asking A-listers for selfies | Ents & Arts News

Published by Daniella Wilson

After finding out about his BAFTA nominations, Tom Basden contemplated the red carpet. Specifically the stars, “your Chalamets, your DiCaprios”, he might bump into as he walks it. His film, The Ballad Of Wallis Island, a quirky, wry comedy about fame and loss, also co-starring and co-written with Tim Key, was one of the UK’s sleeper hits of 2025 – and described by romcom king Richard Curtis, no less, as one of the greatest British films of all time. But set on a fictional island off the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, it is a world away from the big-budget, A-list-filled productions it is up against at this year’s BAFTAs, including One Battle After, Marty Supreme and Sinners. Basden and his co-creators will likely be brushing shoulders with Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothee Chalamet, as well as fellow nominees including Michael B Jordan, Kate Hudson, Emma Stone and Benicio Del Toro. Image: Leonardo DiCaprio is in the running for a BAFTA for his performance in One Battle After Another. Pic: Warner Bros via AP “In truth, we …

Teenagers who posed for selfies after killing homeless man jailed | UK News

Teenagers who posed for selfies after killing homeless man jailed | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

Three teenagers who posed for selfies after killing a homeless man near London’s King’s Cross station have been jailed. Eymaiyah Lee Bradshaw-McKoy, 18, Mia Campos-Jorge, 19, and Jaidee Bingham, 18, chased and beat up Anthony Marks, 51, on 10 August 2024. Mr Marks suffered a head injury with bleeding on the brain, which he died from five weeks later. Image: Anthony Marks died after suffering a head injury with bleeding on the brain. Pic: Met Police Photographs from the night of the attack showed the laughing teenagers, then aged 16 and 17, before and after they carried out the killing. Drug dealer Bingham, known as Ghost, caused the fatal injury by hitting Mr Marks over the head twice with a glass bottle after he had fallen to the ground. Image: Jaidee Bingham was jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years. Pic: Met Police Audio from a CCTV camera picked up male and female voices shouting: “Hit him again. Kick kicking. Do it again. Have you learned your lesson yet?” Video recordings, shot …