AI chatbot’s simple ‘123456’ password risked exposing personal data of millions of McDonald’s job applicants

techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/ai-chatbots-simple-123456-password-risked-exposing-personal-data-of-millions-of-mcdonalds-job-applicants

Security researchers found that they could access the personal information of 64 million people who had applied for a job at McDonald’s, in large part by logging into the company’s AI job hiring chatbot with the username and password “123456.”
Ian Carroll and Sam Curry wrote in a blog…

This story appeared on techcrunch.com, 2025-07-11 14:21:17.
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