News McDonald's McHire bot exposed personal information of 64M people by using '123456' as a password in 2025

[Admin]

A pair of security researchers have revealed vulnerabilities in the McHire chatbot Paradox developed for McDonald's that could have been exploited to reveal personal information about roughly 64 million people who have used the service to apply for jobs at their local franchises. (Hat-tip Wired.)

McDonald's McHire bot exposed personal information of 64M people by using '123456' as a password in 2025 : Read more

 

[psyconz]

Appreciate the humour shown in this piece. A silver lining to the amazingly awful self-pwns (with consequences for others, and even sometimes the companies themselves, too) that incredibly wealthy corporations seem to achieve on a regular basis.

 

[vern72]

Clown! 😛

 

[punkncat]

Clown! 😛

Well done.

 

[Thunder64]

You shouldn't have to create an account to apply to a job.

 

[USAFRet]

You shouldn't have to create an account to apply to a job.

An "account"? Maybe not.
But they WILL need some details about how to contact you.
Which results in the same thing.

 

[derekullo]

That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!