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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’

.. Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based vulnerabilities—including guessing one laughably weak password—allowed them to access a Paradox.ai account and query the company's databases that held every McHire user's chats with Olivia. The data appears to include as many as 64 million records, including applicants' names, email addresses, and phone numbers...."

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by Anonymousreply 4July 10, 2025 2:50 AM

Millions of people have applied to McDonalds?

by Anonymousreply 1July 10, 2025 2:25 AM

R1 scary isn’t it

by Anonymousreply 2July 10, 2025 2:47 AM

I asked AI for some math and it checks out.

Frontline Workers (Restaurant Staff) • McDonald’s operates about 13,500 restaurants in the U.S.  • Reddit users estimate roughly 45 employees per restaurant  • That equates to around 600,000 frontline employees (13,500 × 45).

by Anonymousreply 3July 10, 2025 2:50 AM

I'm luvin it?

by Anonymousreply 4July 10, 2025 2:50 AM
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