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McDonald’s ‘123456’ Password Scare Reframes Responsible AI Debate
Boards and c-suites remain dangerously unready for AI design, deployment and oversight. A security near-miss shows why.
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 ...
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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 ...
McDonald’s AI recruiting tool had a super-sized security flaw.
Security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry broke into the backend of McDonald’s hiring system by entering the username and password “123456,” as reported by Wired. They were then able to view the ...
McDonald’s AI recruiting platform had a really embarrassing security flaw - and it left millions of users open to attack
The company recently introduced a new AI-powered hiring platform, courtesy of partners Paradox.ai. Called McHire, it featured Olivia, an AI-powered chatbot that screens applicants, gathers their ...
McDonald’s in hot water after AI tool with laughably weak password ‘123456’ gets hacked, data of 64M job seekers exposed
A data breach at McDonald's has compromised the personal information of 64 million job applicants, leading to urgent scrutiny ...
'123456' password exposed chats for 64 million McDonald’s job chatbot applications
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald's chatbot job application platform, that exposed the ...
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McDonald’s security blunder exposes job applicants’ data
More than 64 million job applicants for McDonald’s have had their personal information exposed due to a security oversight in ...
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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposes 64 Million Applicants in Major Data Breach
McDonald's has landed itself in an AI hiring controversy. The company’s AI recruiting platform has allegedly exposed information of 64 million job candidates du ...