{"id":93287,"date":"2013-12-09T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=93287"},"modified":"2013-12-10T08:39:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T06:39:15","slug":"sanral-website-exposing-your-e-toll-bills-a-problem-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/93287-sanral-website-exposing-your-e-toll-bills-a-problem-lawyer.html","title":{"rendered":"Sanral website exposing your e-toll bills a problem: lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanral<\/a>\u2019s e-tolling website allows anyone with an Internet connection to check the e-toll balance of any vehicle for which they have the license plate number.<\/p>\n

When the Sanral e-toll URL to check outstanding fees<\/strong><\/a> is loaded for the first time, users are redirected to a \u201ccustomer login page\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, by simply reloading the page the user gets taken to a \u201cPayment of toll fees for unregistered users\u201d page from which any vehicle\u2019s outstanding toll fees can be checked.<\/p>\n

URL to check outstanding e-toll fees<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.sanral.co.za\/e-toll\/portal\/PayTollFeesUnregisteredUsers.aspx<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jacobson Attorneys<\/a>‘ founder and principal attorney Paul Jacobson<\/a> said that the ability to openly check someone else\u2019s e-toll bill is a problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cLicense plate details are essentially public, so enabling anyone with a license plate number to check e-toll balances without some other form of verification is placing a fair amount of personal information in the hands of people who should not have access to it,\u201d said Jacobson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t see any reason why Sanral shouldn’t take steps to require users to log-in with an email address and password, for example, or if there is an SMS facility, authenticate with the MSISDN,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Jacobson said that the information made available includes names, ID numbers and other details this could be disastrous and is a very poorly conceived model.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would likely fall foul of the Protection of Personal Information Act which requires that personal information be adequately secured,\u201d said Jacobson.<\/p>\n

Sanral was asked for comment, but the company could not answer questions within a few days because of the \u201cthe technical investigation that needs to be done\u201d.<\/p>\n

More on e-tolls<\/h3>\n

Check your outstanding e-toll bill online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Gauteng road users woke up to e-tolls<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

E-tag sales encouraging: transport department<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Where does the toll money go?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanral’s website allows anyone to check anyone else\u2019s outstanding fees, which may be a violation of road users\u2019 privacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":92745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9413,35,2072],"class_list":["post-93287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-e-tolls","tag-headline","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93353,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93287\/revisions\/93353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}