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Sead Fadilpašić

McDonald’s AI recruiting platform had a really embarrassing security flaw - and it left millions of users open to attack

World Password Day 2025.
  • 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 obtain all of the data stored by the AI

A third-party supply chain vulnerability exposed sensitive data on 64 million people who applied to work with McDonald’s, experts have claimed.

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