I love cars and I love OSINT. Sometimes I get to combine these passions. Not only for work, but also in little exercises that help sharpen my research skills.

A while back I posted a blog about using car spotting sites to find and track vehicles. The sites I discussed in that article where only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to finding information about specific vehicles online. Today, I want to walk you through other means of finding cars using unique identifiers such as license plates or VINs (vehicle identification numbers). There’s nothing fancy about what I’m going to show here. I’ll just follow the digital breadcrumbs using simple OSINT techniques.

For some reason I stumbled upon a Youtube video showing an Italian soccer player’s Ferrari. We’ve all been down that rabbit hole before. You start watching Youtube videos about cooking and end up somewhere completely different. Oh, the joys of the internet…