Officials may be involved in illegally changing vehicle registration information

[webfact]

 

Thailand’s Land Transport Department (LTD) has insisted that its officials, who have access to the car registration database,were not involved in the altering of information to apply for new licenses for illegal cars, but a Thai PBS investigative team has discovered that one of the two suspected hackers is very close to one of the officials and can use the official’s computer in his office.

 

A regular visitor to the LTD told Thai PBS that one of the two suspected hackers, “Sathien”, was often seen at the desk of an assistant car inspector and could get in and out of the inspector’s office at will, adding that Sathien’s motorcycle license plate number 9999 is expensive.

 

He said he believes the two suspected hackers could not have hacked into the department’s registration database without the assistance of someone who has access to the system. He also claimed that the actual number of cars which were issued with new licenses through fraudulent means could be higher than the 65 claimed by the police and the LTD.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/officials-may-be-involved-in-illegally-changing-vehicle-registration-information/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-08-07

 

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[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s Land Transport Department (LTD) has insisted that its officials, who have access to the car registration database,were not involved in the altering of information to apply for new licenses for illegal cars, but a Thai PBS investigative team has discovered that one of the two suspected hackers is very close to one of the officials and can use the official’s computer in his office.

Same but different.

I'm just going to the toilet, back in 20 minutes.

 

[2baht]

Officials may be involved in illegally changing vehicle registration information

 

Maybe they are grubs!

[Skipalongcassidy]

"May be involved"... 555

[ignore it]

I'm getting a Chinese involvement vibe.

[klauskunkel]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s Land Transport Department (LTD) has insisted that its officials were not involved in the altering of information to apply for new licenses

Well, if no officials were involved, that would mean that anyone could alter the LTD database from home, right?

So, what would you rather have, LTD? Blame a few crooked officials, or blame your own incompetence and lack of security?

[KhunLA]

CH, RU, Trump ... seriously

... it would have to be an LTD official involved at one point or another.

 

You can hack & change info in the data system, but how do you change the #s on the vehicle to match original registration book.

 

Fine if vehicle is never inspected or transferred.

 

 

[mikebell]

Another area of Thai life corrupt to the core.

[fallup88]

8 hours ago, KhunLA said:

CH, RU, Trump ... seriously

... it would have to be an LTD official involved at one point or another.

 

You can hack & change info in the data system, but how do you change the #s on the vehicle to match original registration book.

 

Fine if vehicle is never inspected or transferred.

 

 

Most of this involves vintage cars. You can easily restamp chassis numbers. 
 

Transport office actually has a service that does that legally for specific reasons.

 

Many in the vintage car scene actually just use a donor totaled car, cut off the chassis number plate and reweld it on to the current car.