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'123456' password exposed chats for 64 million McDonald’s job applicants
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald's chatbot job application platform, that exposed the ...
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McDonald’s AI hiring tool’s password ‘123456’ exposed data of 64M applicants
A security flaw in McHire allowed access to sensitive applicant data via default admin credentials and a vulnerable API. The ...
Hackers Used Simple Password to Access McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Applicant Data
When security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry decided to try to hack into the backend of McDonald’s AI chatbot last Monday, June 30, they didn’t anticipate just how easy it would be. McDonald’s ...
McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’
Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site ...