Nothing in either story explains why the victims would be geographically clustered in Pennsylvania. But if the scam was prevalent elsewhere, I'd think we'd be hearing more people saying "I got one too!".
I wonder if there's some other angle than a shared smartphone app explains the locality better: a disgruntled neighbor with a radar gun, or something. The obvious problem with any local theory, though, is that it would have to explain discovery of the email addresses.
A local business or gov't entity got breached, possibly an insider, and due to living there now or in the past has local knowledge of popular roads that 80% of their targets would be familiar with. Or if they didn't live there it'd be pretty easy to use public records to see where traffic tickets are given out most, where traffic cams are installed, etc.
Nothing in either story explains why the victims would be geographically clustered in Pennsylvania. But if the scam was prevalent elsewhere, I'd think we'd be hearing more people saying "I got one too!".
I wonder if there's some other angle than a shared smartphone app explains the locality better: a disgruntled neighbor with a radar gun, or something. The obvious problem with any local theory, though, is that it would have to explain discovery of the email addresses.