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Nine million logs of Brits' road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard
2020-04-28 10:46

In a blunder described as "Astonishing and worrying," Sheffield City Council's automatic number-plate recognition system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people, The Register can reveal.

The ANPR camera system's internal management dashboard could be accessed by simply entering its IP address into a web browser.

A total of 8,616,198 records of vehicle movements, by time, location, and number plate, could be searched through the dashboard last week, The Register understands.

One camera alone recorded at least 13,000 number plates on Thursday, April 13 - having previously captured 21,000 on Monday, February 24, before the UK entered its coronavirus lockdown, we understand.

We were told the IPv4 addresses of each and every camera was exposed through the dashboard.


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