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McDonald's AI hiring platform McHire faced a limited security breach affecting five candidate records despite reports suggesting millions were compromised.

Security flaws in McDonald's AI hiring system exposed millions of applicants' data to hackers, highlighting significant vulnerabilities in the platform used by the fast-food giant.

As if on cue, reports this week emerged of McDonald's suffering a global data breach that saw the names and contact details of 60 million applicants – including Australian ones – exposed.

Following disclosure on June 30, 2025, Paradox.ai and McDonald’s acknowledged the vulnerability within the hour. By July 1, default credentials were disabled and the endpoint was secured.

Olivia, the AI chatbot McDonald’s uses to streamline job application processes, exposed an estimated 64 million chat logs containing applicants’ sensitive data.

McDonald's recently introduced a new hiring platform called McHire It uses an AI-powered chatbot that collects resumes, CVs, and contact data Researchers managed to easily log into the backend and ...

McDonald's Idiotic AI Hiring System Just Leaked Personal Data About Millions of Job Applicants "It turned out we had become the administrator of a test restaurant inside the McHire system." ...

Paradox.ai has since made a blog post acknowledging the security breach, which assures that the loophole was not discovered by any actors outside of the researchers and that the researchers only ...

How researchers discovered the McDonald’s AI hiring vulnerability. The breach was discovered in July 2025 by security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry. After receiving complaints about the ...

As large language models (LLMs) become ever more integrated into the platforms that define daily life, major flaws in the software's security capabilities are starting to show. McDonalds is among the ...