Ceop website form 'could have put children at risk'

A group of people to find a Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre's website in the form - to report the alleged offender - is encrypted.

Security experts described as a serious mistake, could endanger children's data destruction.

The agency told the BBC the risk is assumed, is now fixed, so any criminal can safely be reported.

There is now a full investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office.

Means not encrypted pages to enter personal information on the site may be a sinister visible to anyone.

However, the organization described here, the spokesman Peter Davis said:. "Security is not as good as it should be, but it has been fixed, but have access to it, you will have to actually go hunting and it will have a high level of expertise. "

He explained that the safety of all the prefix HTTPS protocol sites, HTTP comparison unsafe.

'Assuming the Risk:

But he said people come from third-party sites such as Google or Facebook, the form is to pass an HTTP address, not a HTTPS address.

This means that there are a number of technical professionals who may have been able to access confidential information on the form.

"This is a hypothetical risk, and no one has been leaked details of the evidence, " Mr. Davis said.

Organisation, established in 2006 set up to help find and pedophilia criminals, and work to keep young people safe from online predators.

It has to run and asking the children more exercise, the risk of schools and education programs.

A plan to merge the National Crime Authority set up a new organization introduced in July 2013 announced by the Home Secretary Theresa May.