Chatbot used by McDonald's to hire workers leaked data for 64 million people after researchers guessed system password was '123456' — once inside, a second flaw turned up 'every chat interaction [from anyone who] ever applied for a job at McDonald’s'

A pair of security researchers has revealed vulnerabilities in the McHire chatbot Olivia, developed by Paradox.ai for McDonald's, that could have been exploited to reveal personal information about roughly 64 million people.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/chatbot-used-by-mcdonalds-to-hire-workers-leaked-data-for-64-million-people-after-researchers-guessed-the-password-used-to-protect-it-was-123456-it-turned-out-we-had-become-the-administrator-of-a-test-restaurant-inside-the-mchire-system

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