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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?
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.
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They were probably using HP MSA2000 Arrays..
Also if you win a prize from their monopoly game ...
I think they prefer the term "franchise".
Burns: We're building a casino!
McAllister: Arrr. Give me 5 minutes.
I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
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Your grasp of that joke was Wimpy.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Wire fraud? But we did it via a wireLESS network :(
Admit nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.
Yea, what I was thinking exactly. This could be one of the most useless & non-damaging data breaches I've ever heard of. Some phone numbers, addresses and names.. What's exactly is a hacker going to do with this information?
Sell it to Jenny Craig?