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6.40 crore job applicants' data could have been leaked due to McDonald's mistake
Data Leak: A serious security flaw has been found in McDonald's AI-based recruitment tool McHire. Security experts have revealed this shocking negligence.
Such a shocking negligence has been brought to the fore in an AI tool being utilised by McDonald's, triggering concerns over the privacy of crores of individuals. A grave security bug was discovered in the hiring portal McHire, revealing the sensitive information of around 64 million applicants.
The most surprising aspect of this revelation was that the exceedingly ordinary and foreseeable password '123456' was employed on this system.
Security expert Ian Carroll and Sam Curry uncovered this security flaw. They discovered that there was an option to log in as "Paradox team members" on the admin panel of McHire. In it he attempted the default password and username '123456' and got access not only to the test server, but also the actual admin dashboard.
