Maker of US border’s license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker

Tennessee-based Perceptics prides itself as “the sole provider of stationary LPRs [license plate readers] installed at all land border crossing lanes for POV [privately owned vehicle] traffic in the United States, Canada, and for the most critical lanes in Mexico.” In fact, Perceptics recently announced, in a pact with Unisys Federal Systems, it had landed “a key contract by US Customs and Border Protection to replace existing LPR technology, and to install Perceptics next generation License Plate Readers (LPRs) at 43 US Border Patrol check point lanes in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.” The nature of the company’s business – border security data acquisition, commercial vehicle inspection, electronic toll collection and roadway monitoring – means that it’s likely to have a significant amount of sensitive information.

Source: www.theregister.co.uk