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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’

www.wired.com

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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’

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Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/sn2Ud

  • barnaclebutt
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    40•18 days ago

    I’m so lucky that my password is hunter2

    • @[email protected]
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      32•18 days ago

      All I see is *******?

      • @[email protected]
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        15•18 days ago

        That’s cause I copied your password but it shows up as *******

        See: hunter2

    • @[email protected]
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      19•18 days ago

      I forgot what it was referring to and searched a bit

      https://web.archive.org/web/20060212043925/http://www.bash.org/?244321

      • @[email protected]
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        5•18 days ago

        Bash is kill?: (

        • @[email protected]
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          18 days ago

          it seems down at the moment

          I don’t have any more info

        • @[email protected]
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          2•17 days ago

          Years, sadly.

      • @[email protected]
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        2•17 days ago

        ah… classic.

        Fuck i am old.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•15 days ago

      I don’t know why you are getting so many upvotes for being a liar. Tried it on Lemmy.world and it doesn’t work. I even tried it with a capital H.

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