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Nine million logs of Brits' road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard
In a blunder described as "astonishing and worrying," Sheffield City Council's automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) 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 address into a web browser. No login details or authentication of any sort was needed to view and search the live system – which logs where and when vehicles, identified by their number plates, travel through Sheffield's road network.
A total of 8,616,198 records of vehicle movements, by time, location, and number plate, could be searched through the dashboard last week