Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App

71 points by qtqtqt 8 hours ago on hackernews | 15 comments

Page doesn't load for me

Come on, you can file a better problem report than that. “Doesn't load” can cover a great many issues: link not valid at all (NXDOMAIN, 404), some sort of error from the server (404, 401, 500, 200 but with error in arbitrary text), no connection, looped redirects, …

The best you'll get from just saying “doesn't work for me” is people like me saying “its fine here”, like so: it is working fine for me from here.

denysvitali | 5 hours ago

Times out after the TLS handshake.

https://pastebin.com/raw/mncT5drA

: [OP] qtqtqt | 37 minutes ago
Looks like curl doesn't work (same command, same error) but Firefox does.

muragekibicho | an hour ago

The link is clicked but I remain here on Hacker News. It's not loading, like, it's not taking me to the website.

ktm5j | 54 minutes ago

This isn't really the place to file any kind of report.. saying the page doesn't load is a perfectly valid comment IMO.

[OP] qtqtqt | 7 hours ago

Tata says the issue has been fixed and there were no leaks: https://auto.timesofindia.com/news/cars/tata-motors-says-ira...

AdamN | 7 hours ago

The problem is that hardcoded credentials is such a bad smell that we can be confident that the code quality is extremely poor.

: navigate8310 | 6 hours ago
tbh, you can't expect much from them in general
: ActionHank | an hour ago
"Nah it's fine our engineers now keep them in config files now."

richbell | 3 hours ago

Par for the course.

https://eaton-works.com/2025/10/28/tata-motors-hack/

tpowell | 3 hours ago

I feel like I just got a telegram... love the website.

: [OP] qtqtqt | 46 minutes ago
If you want to have more fun, visit the homepage (https://cert-in.org.in/), navigate to the Latest Security Alert section, and right click on any link. The context menu won't show up. If you click on the link and visit the page, your browser's address bar won't change. This happens only if JavaScript is enabled.

monster_truck | 48 minutes ago

As the person who had to rush out an update to MyFordMobile because some enterprising windows phone nerd ganked the hardcoded creds out of their Android app to build a winphone app that allowed you to authenticate against their backend and remotely start/unlock your car, which they _really_ did not like...

Many such cases. And no, I was not the one who did that in the first place

axegon_ | 30 minutes ago

Though I have been critical of LLMs in general, I have to give them credit for being really good digging out stuff that me as a human would find tedious. As such, I have my own LOCAL clanker that I use for two things: as a rubber duck and dump an apk with apktool inside a locked up container and let it go nuts. I've done it on numerous popular apps and it has found countless hardcoded credentials and keys in them. Just about all apps really, so far I think there's only been one that hasn't had THIS particular problem(it did have countless others though).