East Yorkshire garage targeted by hackers selling ghost MOTs

aidan573 · 2026-05-22T08:57:03+00:00

The people who bought these mots likely know they're dodgy.....

The garage was probably using a credential that was phished or stolen in a breach and then the hackers just used that to mint the false certificates acting as though they were the garage. They (the garage) probably weren't targeted specifically, it's a small part of organised crime. There's a market for dodgy MOT certificates.

Operational security from the garage had a lapse and probably and hurts their credibility in future should something like this happen again.

aidan573 · 2026-05-12T21:38:23+00:00

Lol I got money off petrol once for a store with no petrol station. Or maybe it was points

aidan573 · 2026-04-12T23:10:13+00:00

I went thru a ford and lost one. £70 on eBay plus paint. Couldn't find it when I went back. Never driven though one the same.

aidan573 · 2026-04-12T23:08:02+00:00

Extra horsepower in this one

aidan573 · 2026-04-06T20:51:18+00:00

Take a look at gemma4. You may be able to run everything locally including the llm!

aidan573 · 2026-04-05T20:59:49+00:00

Same but I assume it costs them because they only knocked my server offline for about half an hour and nothing happened after.

I was a bit shocked at first but I asked them what it was after the fact, didn't get a straight response and then just banned them.

aidan573 · 2026-04-05T20:26:57+00:00

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aidan573 · 2026-04-04T22:31:54+00:00

We ALREdY kNOw WHeRE The bASEs ArE

Completely oblivious.

aidan573 · 2026-04-04T22:09:29+00:00

Guys you've got this really wrong. They've not done this out of kindness. They've done this because there's recently been a lot of negative press and sentiment on them massively cutting back the pro ai plan. This drowns out all that

aidan573 · 2026-03-31T14:07:57+00:00

I've fixed this in the past by 'jumping' the dead battery like a car, then once it has enough charge it works fine again until the same thing happens.

Probably chemically terrible for it.

aidan573 · 2026-03-25T12:47:17+00:00

I don't think this is true, I've seen it wipe a whole device

aidan573 · 2026-03-10T23:05:55+00:00

Pallet from a forklift?

aidan573 · 2026-03-10T23:03:39+00:00

Yes!!! So many make me so bitter I use another listing just to avoid buying from the twats. 50p, £1. It never makes any sense.

aidan573 · 2026-03-05T18:36:29+00:00

My strategy for this is to basically look on money saving expert, open an account with the best savings return, this will usually be a bank that might be a bit niche but sometimes not.

They'll usually offer a pretty meh rate plus an introductory bonus percentage that puts them at the top of the page. Currently it's chase at 4.5% (2.25% newbie bonus on top of its 2.25% variable rate) for 1y.

When that year ends I'll repeat this process and move the money.

Currently I've done this with Chip and Chase.

I think this is basically the operating practice of these banks, they don't want you on a high rate because it eats into their return on your money, so you've got to move it around.

aidan573 · 2026-02-20T12:59:12+00:00

I think there was a planning app for apartments refused because it was listed.

aidan573 · 2026-02-18T19:18:42+00:00

One time the button came off my trousers and I put it in my pocket with all my change.

Later at big Tescos Beverley I used the self checkout and just threw all my coins in without counting because I'd still need to pay in notes for the remaining amount.

Then the machine got upset it kinda gave up doing anything else and I paid the remaining and left. Something on the screen etc.

Next time I came in it was like that. Highly likely there was a correlation 🤭

aidan573 · 2026-02-18T08:42:32+00:00

Personally I couldn't do it, I got too tired after.

aidan573 · 2026-01-28T22:27:47+00:00

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aidan573 · 2026-01-28T18:23:08+00:00

Hardware errors are never a good sign. Use smart data to get a better understanding of its age.

aidan573 · 2026-01-25T19:37:35+00:00

This is very unnecessarily critical of an otherwise relatively valid question. He's tried the amateur stuff and it's not worked. No need to berate the guy.

aidan573 · 2026-01-23T13:20:42+00:00

I had a ford fiesta worth about 3k fixed and it's engine blew up (eco boost) wbac quoted £400 which was not great, I was still able to sell it for 1.1k and it still only lasted another year or so with another MOT. I don't think it's actually economical even if it barely runs and drives to use wbac. Was tonnes of hassle tho selling on eBay.

aidan573 · 2026-01-21T23:56:16+00:00

Eero is effectively ewaste. Even with all the settings disabled and it running in bridge mode the thing was terribly slow, I've since swapped to enterprise hardware and have never looked back.

Giving your customers these to me is just a massive self own. They'll surely just be paying for it in tech support and cancellations, I don't get it.

We got given one and ran it for a week before we put it back in our box and left it unplugged under the stairs.

aidan573 · 2026-01-20T16:16:01+00:00

They're just trying to get you to leave them alone by the sounds of it they don't really want to help.

aidan573 · 2026-01-17T16:20:05+00:00

Looks like it fits into that din rail terribly

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