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

AI tools have become essential for tasks like data collection and recruitment, but McDonald's faced significant issues due to ...

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. ...

Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site ...

Security researcher Ian Carroll successfully logged into an administrative account for Paradox.ai, the company that built McDonald's AI job interviewer, using "123456" as both a username ...

Here’s a recent “near-miss" that highlights the risk of McDonald’s reliance on a tech vendor, Paradox, to run its hiring ...

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

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.

Listed IT consultancy Atturra says the burgeoning data of AI is creating challenges for organisations, including the growing risk of ... Read More The post Criterion: McDonald’s data breach with the ...

When security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry decided to try to hack into the backend of McDonald’s AI chatbot last Monday, June 30, they didn’t anticipate just how easy it would be.

However, a review of stolen password data gathered by multiple breach-tracking services shows that at the end of June 2025, a ...

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." ...