McDonald’s Used 123456 as Corporate Password, Exposed 64 Million Data Files

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McDonald’s Used 123456 as Corporate Password, Exposed 64 Million Data Files

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing everything, especially cybersecurity. But a recent data breach suffered by McDonald’s, exposing the personal information of around 64 million of the company’s job applicants, wasn’t a failure of AI so much as a failure of the most basic…

This story appeared on pymnts.com, 2025-07-14 15:24:28.