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Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site ...
McHire is McDonald's AI hiring app. The private data of 64 million applicants was exposed because the admin login password was "123456" and provided access to the AI chatbot's logs. Security ...
McDonald's AI hiring platform McHire faced a limited security breach affecting five candidate records despite reports suggesting millions were compromised.
The fast-food giant McDonald's potentially exposed 64 million job application records to security breaches because of its artificial intelligence-driven recruitment platform, according to Wired ...
Cybersecurity expert warns extra caution is needed when introducing tools that are capable of autonomous action ...
Hackers could use the password, “123456”, to access the data, which came from an AI chatbot that conducted job interviews.
A recent case of IDOR involved McDonald's AI McHire application which not only had been misconfigured with a default password ...
The rise of AI has resulted in the technology permiating our daily life, with many companies using it their hiring process. That includes McDonald’s, which deploys a chatbot named Olivia made by ...
We recently reported about how McDonald’s AI hiring tool’s password ‘123456’ exposed the data of 64M applicants. Not a great day for the fast-food giant, but our readers were lovin’ it.
McDonald's uses AI to verify orders at 400 India locations and plans to roll out the system worldwide in two years to improve ...
On June 30, 2025, security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry discovered a vulnerability in a Paradox.ai test account related to a single client instance, which serves McDonald's.