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Security lapse exposes 100,000 UK visa applicants’ passports and selfies
TechCrunch reports that third-party site ‘UK Visa Portal’ left a cloud storage bucket publicly accessible, exposing passports and selfies from some 100,000 ETA and visa applicants. The company, which is not affiliated with the Home Office, secured the data only after media contact and has yet to notify users or regulators, raising serious data-protection and identity-theft concerns.
UK and Poland sign Northolt Treaty with joint plan to combat irregular migration
The UK and Poland have signed the Northolt Security and Defence Partnership, which—alongside military pledges—creates a Joint Action Plan on Irregular Migration. The partners will share intelligence, target smuggling networks and coordinate border-security operations, signalling deeper UK-EU collaboration on mobility challenges.