Smart meters seem to be able to be read by third parties. Photo ANP / Lex van Lieshout
Smart meters prove not waterproof. Journalist Jaap Meijers found out that you can read the energy of someone’s house through the apps that can be linked to such a smart meter. The network operators have already announced measures against the abuse.
The Meijers managed to retrieve the data from a specific address, by doing for them on the app as the client. The danger of this is that intruders can obtain this way when you are at home; The heater will namely be from
According to the operators, the error because energy companies are not always properly check whether
“The network operators and energy suppliers take this seriously and take extra steps to ensure that guaranteed the security of customer data by providers of apps.”
The privacy of the users was a sore point with the introduction of smart meters. At the insistence of the Senate was therefore introduced that consumers may refuse the installation of the meters. To protect the privacy was further determined that the meter does not every quarter, but only every two months read may be, unless consumers give explicit permission to read the meter often.
NRC spoke with Jaap Meijers and writes about in the paper tomorrow. Read now on TVNZ: Who knows how many you burned? (€)
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