McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’
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 built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.
Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/sn2Ud
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McDonalds gets millions of applications? wtf?
ETA: Yeah, I guess they do.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/13/mcdonalds-hiring-surge/83595827007/
I don't think you were quite grasping the scope the McDonald's operates at. That's only a couple hundred per location, and fast food restaurants tend to have extremely high turnover, so that's definitely not an unrealistic number.
ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?
One of us doesn't know what that stands for. I feel like the time my grandpa died, and mom sent me an email telling me "We're going to the funeral this Friday to pay respects to grandpa. LOL!"
I was quite confused. Turns out she grew up with "Lots Of Love". For a second she seemed like she turned into an absolute psychopath, for like....no reason.
ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?
In this context, it means "Edited To Add". I do wish they abbreviated it some other way, since "Estimated Time of Arrival" is a much more common meaning. I would accept "E2A" or something stupid, as long as it was more unique. Alternatively, they could just use "Edit:".
Edit: added link.
This is my first time reading about this alternate "ETA" initialism. Interesting...
ETA: Mine, too.
(ETA in this context means "Entering Text As:")
What an
EnternainingEntertaining Twist of an Acronym.
Oh no, we're out of letters!
ETA = Edit to add
Just trying to explain why my comment changed, in case anyone saw it before that LOL.
They have over 40k locations. Many are 24/7. They also surely churn through employees, have many part time employees, and probably get many more applicants than they hire.
The employees will be hired by the franchisees but they still use the McDonalds software.
Millions is not a surprise to me at all. Perhaps that it's tens of millions is a little surprising, but it still seems within the realm of possibility.
Many are 24/7.
Lies detected.
Are you saying that there are not many McDonalds that advertise 24/7 service, or that they advertise this but don't actually provide it?
I've never seen any mcdonalds advertise or service 24/7 schedules. Not since the pandemic.
Walmart and Target stopped too.
Walgreens/CVS is the only thing I know that still does 24/7.
I live in New Zealand and there are many 24/7 McDonalds in busy areas. Clicking randomly on their NZ map it's pretty easy to find them: https://mcdonalds.co.nz/find-us/restaurants
It's the same with Australia: https://mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurants
Actually, the same for the US. It's not hard to find 24/7 ones (you need to search for a city before they show on the map): https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/restaurant-locator.html
This was my perception as well. Then I moved a couple states away and suddenly everything's 24/7 like the old days. I suppose it's regional.
i mean there's a shit ton of unskilled labor out there whose vertical reach isn't that great.
What does their basketball skills have to do with this?
/s
They pay well everywhere but the US.