McDonald’s experienced a major security incident in June that resulted in the exposure of data belonging to apparently millions of job applicants.
Earlier this month, security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry detailed how they found major flaws within McDonald’s hiring platform, McHire. The platform features an AI chatbot named Olivia, created by the company Paradox.ai.
After a few hours of testing the chatbot, Carroll and Curry found that the default credentials — “123456” in both the username and password fields — enabled them to…
