when I saw the number 46,000 I realized this was not a major manufacturer. Lorex is very low end in the industry.
The largest manufacturer of IP CCTV equipment makes their own brand and numerous other brands as well. Their default passwords are 12345. But they advise the installer the change them
It may be very low in the industry, but you should remember that more and more cheap ChiCom chips are appearing in many areas as time goes by, and far too many of them appear to have “backdoors” installed by default as soon as they come off of the assembly line.
The day may come when you are upgrading your systems and you then come to find that the equipment you are “upgrading” to (or even “patching” your current systems to) will be in the background sending data to sites you would not wish them to, such as for instance mainland China...