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McDonald's Hacked and Customer Data Stolen
An anonymous reader writes "McDonald's servers were recently compromised and hackers were able to get access to customers' e-mail addresses, names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, genders, as well as certain information about their promotional preferences and Web information interests. The sites affected were: McDonalds.com, 365Black.com, McDonalds.ca, mcdonaldsmom.com, mcdlive.com, monopoly.com, playatmcd.com, and meencanta.com. The restaurant chain is warning customers to be cautious of anyone claiming to be from McDonald's contacting them by phone or e-mail, and asking for personal or financial information. McDonald's has also set up a FAQ page for affected customers with 13 questions and their corresponding answers." Update by KD : Weld Pond tweets: "Silverpop email marketer owned. Was email subcontractor for McDonalds and DevientART (13M users) and 105 other orgs."
I can has cheezburger?
Why would any sane person possibly give McDonald's all their personal information in the first place?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Oh no, all those late night drive-thrus, known to the world!
why do people even give this kind of information to a burger flipper ?
Is it the same gene that makes people want to go eat there that also makes them do things like this ?
Police say they're looking for a short chubby-faced man with ginger hair, wearing a black-and-white striped outfit, a black eye mask, red gloves, a black cape with yellow lining and a red tie with hamburger detail. The man is linked to previous thefts of foodstuffs (primarily hamburgers) from McDonalds.
This is a substitute for a clever sig that fits within the maximum number of characters.
Known to the world...oh the shame! /kill self
Robble Robble Robble!
They were probably using HP MSA2000 Arrays..
Big Database?
A while back while WiFi was still new and shiny; and before people had figured the whole "put a password on it"-thing, a friend and I were out wardriving, we came across an open network that turned out to belong to a local Micky D's. Connected to the network and saw a single computer running on it, a little poking at it revealed it to be running some flavor of windows XP and some more poking revealed it to have a blank admin password.
So when we connected to the standard "C" (or whatever the standard network share is called, I forget) network share and found a huge excel document in the root of said drive, downloaded it and found it to contain all the information - addresses, phone numbers, SSNs and e-mail addresses - of the employees of said Micky D's.
Cool story, huh?
Admit nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.
Who register their email, etc. with Mickey D?
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Now if they hack Burger King or the Pho King then I'm hosed.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Sure, in principle its a bad thing, but I'd be willing to bet that 95% of those people had that exact same information on their Facebook, effectively available to the world anyway.
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
Remember, 40 years ago it was a scandal that the free happy meal postcard you filled out was how you were tracked for the draft. My dad taught me this lesson early on, and it's nothing but magnified. BTW, Thank You EFF for winning today!
Now somebody will know my McDonalds password.
Today: "Adding insult to injury".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
those dudes like to go to McDonald!
"Would you like to super-size your credit report?"
Those emails are already compromised by spammers, since I use them to communicate with family members, and they all distribute my address in those idiotic email forwards. They also get their laptops pwned once a month for good measure.
... why would you give your personal information to McDonalds?
McDonalds, serving millions of future Cancer Patients. Today.
...would someone PLEASE post the OS that is running on all of these hacked servers? Sheesh.
I like McDonalds.
I have to admit this are european McDonalds (the ones in the US I have been at looked more like a miniature Ghetto), but once a month or so it does not hurt.
On the other hand, I am 1.85m and 90Kg, so it seems you not liking McDonalds doesnt work out for you, fatty.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Why do you assume they are fat? why do you assume they are stupid? just becasue you can't control your calories, doesn't mean nobody can.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
To track the success of your weight loss plan...
... that my diet doesn't find any of my accounts in that data.
I'm afraid Mary is dead.
Hello, My name name is Ronald McDonald from McDonald's. My Uncle who used to reside in Nigeria died recently and left me an inheritance of $5 million. If you are interested in earning 10% of this amount...
Who goes to the mcdonalds web site? Do you need to check out the menu?
There food is horrible
Did you misspell "their" or just drop a comma? Either way it makes sense!
it tastes like a charred hamster
Where do you get charred hamster? I can't even get cuy around here.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
I guess it is -1 time:
1st off, how many people do you know that go to McDonald's on a regular basis? How many of those people go so much to where they are willing to give McDonald's their information for coupons? Go ahead, tell me if those ones are overweight.
Just a single Hamburger (not cheeseburger, but hamburger) is 250 calories. Can you tell me a single person that will count calories at McDonald's? Ok, there may be a couple that do that.
Next, as for me controlling my own calories, I am doing a great job. See, now you are assuming that since I am overweight, that I am not controlling my calories. About 2 years ago, I weighed in at about 315lbs. I went from 315-250 and am still going strong. I control my calories very well. To assume that I do not control my calories because I am overweight and think that Mc Greasy Fatty Fat Fat sucks.
Next off, do you know a single person that is not dumb that will blindly give out their personal information for small promotional things? "Here sir, take all of my information and I might get a free cheeseburger or maybe $1 off the MSG Supreme". Really. Really?
The fat assumption was done because I do not know a single frequent McDonald's goer that is skinny. Do you know a few? You are seriously the random exception. I used to live in Omaha, which (it still might be, I am unsure) at one point very recently, had more restaurants per capita than any other city in America. Google it if you don't believe me. If anybody knows fast food goers, it would be a person that spend 27 years of their life at a place that per capita had more restaurants than any other city in the country. Frequent McDonalds goers that go so much to where they want coupons to make it cheaper are fat. That is fact. If you know a person that is not that way, you are a random exception.
P.S. - The McRib tastes like butthole. Always has and always will.
The world is how you make it
Because many people are poor and lack the opportunities to get a better job than one can get working for McDonald's. Consider that we don't know the full extent of what McDonald's kept in the compromised systems. We only know from the article that McDonald's was willing to admit the data included "customers' e-mail addresses, names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, genders, as well as certain information about their promotional preferences and Web information interests". We don't know how the McDonald's corporation servers are organized, segregated, or if McDonald's is telling the complete truth. It's reasonable to wonder if other data was also copied.
Digital Citizen
On the other hand, I am 1.85m and 90Kg, so it seems you not liking McDonalds doesnt work out for you, fatty.
You can't say that word! Only we can say that word!
The world is how you make it
...it should read "Silverpop spammers". They have a LONG history which is well known to everyone working in the field, and be readily accessed by anyone who can use a search engine (or check the Internet Archive).
Note carefully: This doesn't mean that every message they've sent is spam -- most competent spammers these days mix spam and non-spam because it's a highly effective tactic. This also doesn't mean that every customer of theirs hired them to spam -- again, most competent spammers have a mix of customers because that also is a highly effective tactic.
But they ARE spammers.
You had to enter this info to play the Monopoly online contest.
Which is actually reasonable since they need some way to contact you and verify your identity in the case of you winning a major prize.
Where do you get charred hamster?
pet store?
The draft may have ended in 1973 but draft registration did not. Registration may still be the law, I think I noticed the registration cards in the post office recently.
That said, the GP's story is silly. The gov't already has your SSN, school records, etc.
when I submitted this 5 hrs ago.
the lengths to which McDonalds fanatics will go to secure another years appearance of the dreaded "McRib" sandwitch has stooped to a new low.
Good people go to bed earlier.
(Rhetoric)
I am not a stupid cow waiting for slaughter! I am unique! I celebrate my identity that lets me stand out from the crowds! I am an Archeopteryx! However, unique still doesn't beget intelligence, so they'll still get me, just with different tricks.
(/Rhetoric)
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
This should read. "Marketing Company McDonalds contracted was hacked" I don't see anywhere that it says an actual McDonalds server/store system got hacked...
Silverpop provides Mint.com with e-mail services, too.
Remember this e-mail SNAFU from not too long ago?
Related?
There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
I don't feel sorry for losers who wasted time going to McDonalds.com in the first place.
but it tastes like a charred hamster ...
and you know this how? On second thought, never mind. I don't want to know.
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
That a mcdonaldsmom.com exists worries me greatly.
I work at one of those 105 orgs. We were not notified about the breach at all – in fact, I found out via an email from Deviant Art. We've contacted Silverpop & are still waiting to hear back.
I was mildly disgusted to see that the domain http://mcdonaldsmom.com/ actually exists. Happily, it redirects to http://www1.mcdonalds.com/momstrust/ which gives a 404. As it should be.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
McDonalds in Europe, Australia, Japan etc. are a lot nicer than the US ones. They sell wraps and decent salads and reasonably good cafe-type food. The actual restaurants themselves are generally much cleaner and have nicer decor than the American ones. So I don't mind the odd visit there. Even if I buy a big fatty burger, a couple of times a year isn't exactly going to hurt.
it tastes like a charred hamster
Where do you get charred hamster?
By incorrectly calculating the cooking time, when making roast hamster.
We live, as we dream -- alone....
Who in their half sane mind would even need to hand over personal information?
I mean, you pay for a hamburger with cash and last time I checked there wasn't a web store for you to need to punch in your and your family's intimate details.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
go and have them searched! I would not be surprised if they have all the data!
"McDonald's did not disclose how many people were impacted .."
I saw a sign that said, "99 Million customers hacked".
QOTD: "He's on the same bus, but he's sure as hell got a different ticket."
If you're interested in facts I'll tell you what they are and I'll give you sources - Chomsky on The Big Idea
I think McD and other fast foods are for stupid people who can't make meal themself or who haven't hands (for example after accidens etc.). I have fresh vegetables in my garden and I always make meal myself.
Recipes for USA bankrupt - http://tinypaste.com/0d66f dd = dollar deluge (printed in the infinity)
Cardiovascular system and security block YOU !
Yours In Akademgorodok,
K. Trout
"McDonald's servers were recently compromised and thieves were able to get access to customers' e-mail addresses..."
there, fixed that for you...
STOP USING "HACKER" IN THIS CONTEXT....
hacking is *not* a crime, and hackers are not criminals, there's already a word for people who break into computer systems and steal data, they're called "thieves."
if i smash you in the face with a hammer, is the headline going to read "Carpenter smashes guy in the head?"
Eh, beh, buh, god nab it. Don't you short commies understand that this is a US site? You people can look, but not touch! Misspelled ft and capital K's... get off my lawn!
j/k
"I saw an opportunity to troll you and get you.." - by gmhowell (26755) on Monday December 13, @06:56PM (#34541134) Homepage Journal
FROM -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1907528&cid=34541134
and also this from the same exchange:
"I never denied trolling you. And the only person I troll under the AC banner is tomhudson." - by gmhowell (26755) on Tuesday December 14, @01:55AM (#34543612) Homepage Journal
FROM -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1907528&cid=34543612
No denying it, is there, gmhowell? After all, your own quoted words in black & white with the links you posted them in are difficult to deny now, aren't they? LMAO!
You're very stupid.
People: Don't pay this trolling douchebag gmhowell any mind, he's an incompetent out of work ignoramus who has nothing better to do than admittedly troll others here and he admits to it above in his own words quoted no less.
(Payback's a bitch, and nobody's a bigger beyotch than gmhowell, the trolling scumbag waste of life).
It seems Silverpop's "Permission based marketing" may come back to bite them. Just a wild guess, but could sending out a billion or so emails, tweets, facebook posts, etc possibly make you a preferred target for blackhats? And why do I think your personal data is coming soon to a Wikileaks mirror near you? http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/telecom/internet/mcdonalds-data-breach-supersized http://www.silverpop.com/blogs/email-marketing/
Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.
# Added on Dec 15, 2010
127.0.0.1 McDonalds.com
127.0.0.1 365Black.com
127.0.0.1 McDonalds.ca
127.0.0.1 mcdonaldsmom.com
127.0.0.1 mcdlive.com
127.0.0.1 monopoly.com
127.0.0.1 playatmcd.com
127.0.0.1 meencanta.com
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The McHack Attack?