A web page set up and designed to protect children while they are online has been found to be insecure, it has been reported.
According to reports, a form found on the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) website to report alleged offenders was not encrypted.
Security experts claim that the breach of data could have put children at risk.
Ceop spokesman Peter Davies told the BBC: "The security was not as good as it should have been but it's been fixed now. But to have accessed it you would have had to have really gone hunting for it and would have had to have had very high levels of expertise."
As a result of the breach, there will now be a full investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office. The unencrypted pages meant personal details entered on the site could have been visible to anyone with a sinister motive.
Ceop was set up in 2006 to help find and convict individuals that pose a risk to children, as well as working to keep young people safe while online.
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There's no way Jim Gamble didn't know he was putting victims at risk with the CEOP website, he deliberately exposed their details to every paedo on the planet!!!
The best way to protect kids is to be informed, full of knowledge and constantly aware as a parent. Do not - I repeat, DO NOT, under any circumstances, trust or put your kids' destiny in another persons' hands.
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Steph
WOW!!!! VERY GLAD THAT THIS TRUSTED AGENCY "CAPITA" (WHO DEALS IN EDUCATION JOBS too!) has found this out!
ReplyDeleteAT LAST!!!!! At last some intelligent, caring People are joining us in the fight for Children's Well Being!
NICE ONE KA!!!!!!
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