McDonald's Hacked and Customer Data Stolen 178
An anonymous reader writes "McDonald's servers were recently compromised and hackers were able to get access to customers' e-mail addresses, names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, genders, as well as certain information about their promotional preferences and Web information interests. The sites affected were: McDonalds.com, 365Black.com, McDonalds.ca, mcdonaldsmom.com, mcdlive.com, monopoly.com, playatmcd.com, and meencanta.com. The restaurant chain is warning customers to be cautious of anyone claiming to be from McDonald's contacting them by phone or e-mail, and asking for personal or financial information. McDonald's has also set up a FAQ page for affected customers with 13 questions and their corresponding answers." Update by KD : Weld Pond tweets: "Silverpop email marketer owned. Was email subcontractor for McDonalds and DevientART (13M users) and 105 other orgs."
And all the e-mails said... (Score:5, Funny)
Suspect identified (Score:5, Funny)
!admin (Score:4, Funny)
They were probably using HP MSA2000 Arrays..
Re:Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Also if you win a prize from their monopoly game ...
I think they prefer the term "franchise".
Re:Wait... (Score:4, Funny)
I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
Re:Wait... (Score:4, Funny)
Your grasp of that joke was Wimpy.
Re:This reminds me.... (Score:1, Funny)
Wire fraud? But we did it via a wireLESS network :(
Re:Suspect identified (Score:5, Funny)
Overheard at the scene:
"Robble, robble!"
Re:Big Deal? (Score:4, Funny)
Yea, what I was thinking exactly. This could be one of the most useless & non-damaging data breaches I've ever heard of. Some phone numbers, addresses and names.. What's exactly is a hacker going to do with this information?
Sell it to Jenny Craig?