McDonald's AI hiring platform McHire faced a limited security breach affecting five candidate records despite reports suggesting millions were compromised.

In a digital age where artificial intelligence powers everything from fast-food orders to job applications, a staggering security lapse at McDonald's has exposed the personal details of approximately ...

Security researcher Ian Carroll successfully logged into an administrative account for Paradox.ai, the company that built McDonald's AI job interviewer, using "123456" as both a username ...

AI tools have become essential for tasks like data collection and recruitment, but McDonald's faced significant issues due to ...

McDonald's is under fire after a security lapse exposed data of 64 million job seekers. Researchers discovered a default admin password, '123456,' granted access to McHire's administrative dashboards.

A security oversight in McDonald’s AI-powered hiring platform “McHire” was found exposing sensitive applicant data belonging to as many as 64 million job seekers.

The McHire AI bot was created by Paradox.ai, which claims that 90% of McDonalds franchisees make use of it in their hiring ...

However, a review of stolen password data gathered by multiple breach-tracking services shows that at the end of June 2025, a ...

Security; McDonald’s AI recruiting platform had a really ... Over 1.1 million user files leaked following huge data breach at top jobseeker platform; AI ‘wingman’ app leaks 160,000 ...

When security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry decided to try to hack into the backend of McDonald’s AI chatbot last Monday, June 30, they didn’t anticipate just how easy it would be.