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A parental internet controls consultation document released by the Department for Education yesterday is currently exposing the email addresses, unencrypted passwords and sensitive answers of members of the public who fill in the associated form.
Many Register readers have alerted us to the serious security flaw this morning, and some have already reported the possible breach of the Data Protection Act to the the Information Commissioner's Office.
We contacted the DfE to alert it to the privacy cockup. It was the first the bureaucrats had heard of the problem, apparently, despite users posting comments exposing the issue directly on the site.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06...security_flaw/
So if this problem has only just been noticed, how many other consultations have been messed up with possibility of jumbled up answers from different contributors and details revealed?
01-07-2012, 01:23
