Tag Archives: McDonald’s

Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

July 17, 2025

Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald’s was exposed after they guessed the password (“123456”) for the fast food chain’s account at Paradox.ai, a company that makes artificial intelligence based hiring chatbots used by many Fortune 500 companies. Paradox.ai said the security oversight was an isolated incident that did not affect its other customers, but recent security breaches involving its employees in Vietnam tell a more nuanced story.

Spammers Target Kroger Customers

April 1, 2011

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Supermarket giant Kroger Company is the latest major business to disclose that its customer list has fallen into the hands of spammers and scam artists.

Fallout from Recent Spear Phishing Attacks?

December 15, 2010

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McDonald’s and Walgreens this week revealed that data breaches at partner marketing firms had exposed customer information. There has been a great deal of media coverage treating these and other similar cases as isolated incidents, but all signs indicate they are directly tied to a spate of “spear phishing” attacks against e-mail marketing firms that have siphoned customer data from more than 100 companies in the past few months.