McDonald's Hacked and Customer Data Stolen 178
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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."
This reminds me.... (Score:3, Interesting)
A while back while WiFi was still new and shiny; and before people had figured the whole "put a password on it"-thing, a friend and I were out wardriving, we came across an open network that turned out to belong to a local Micky D's. Connected to the network and saw a single computer running on it, a little poking at it revealed it to be running some flavor of windows XP and some more poking revealed it to have a blank admin password.
So when we connected to the standard "C" (or whatever the standard network share is called, I forget) network share and found a huge excel document in the root of said drive, downloaded it and found it to contain all the information - addresses, phone numbers, SSNs and e-mail addresses - of the employees of said Micky D's.
Cool story, huh?
Big Deal? (Score:4, Interesting)
The Draft (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Wait... (Score:4, Interesting)
1) Order
2) Pay
3) Receive 'food'
4) Consume 'food'
5) Regret eating 'food'
6) Spend more time on the throne than I would have liked to.
It's step #2 that's the issue. People can be coerced into providing all sorts of information if you promise to send them coupons. I personally think that saving 20 cents on a fast food burger is worth giving out your email, name, address, and phone number, but, hey, I'm currently employed.