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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.

Les données d’Américains ayant postulé chez McDonald’s sont à risque parce que le système de recrutement avait «123456»... comme mot de passe.

The fast-food giant McDonald's potentially exposed 64 million job application records to security breaches because of its artificial intelligence-driven recruitment platform, according to Wired. ...

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.

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...