Personal Data Exposed on Web Site

Personal data including the signatures of recipients has been exposed to those tracking deliveries on the Parcelforce web site, the BBC has discovered. A failure in the system allowed people using the mail tracing service access to the name, postcode and signature of various addressees. The breakdown put Parcelforce at risk of breaching data protection rules. The delivery service, part of the Royal Mail Group, apologised. It said the problem had been resolved