When I used to work at McDonald's they required a fingerprint to clock in and out. They then apparently sold everyone's biometric data. I got some kind of settlement thing but it was like $20 or something. So that was nice... I guess
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If the class action I found online is the same one. My old shitty job tried to implement biometrics and dropped it around the time of that class action. What a coincidence. So thanks?
You're welcome. I am glad to lose my fingerprint data for assistance of a friend
Sweet, now you can buy a big mac or a happy meal! Not both though...
Maybe the happy meal then. :')
"Hackers"
I guess I need to change the password on my luggage
How do I know you're not making faces at me under that thing?
Yes. Do that. Thanks to the TSA, I can now open any luggage without traces. Saves a lot of time. Don’t have to enter 123456 anymore.
"Hacker" when the password could be guessed by an elementary student. Jfc.
Pool on the roof must have a leak
If you answer these three questions...... Say no more Mr. Sphinx!
123456!
There is no exclamation Mark!
12345? Amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!
No.
This is completely different and unhackable. 12345......6!
I hate any company that uses or builds AI to screen out hires so, so much. Tagging metadata is OK, but filtering is just evil (am/have been a hiring manager).
The company also added that it’s instituting a bug bounty program to better catch security vulnerabilities in the future. “We do not take this matter lightly, even though it was resolved swiftly and effectively,”
I also hate it more that I can't hate them for doing the right thing.
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"hackers"....
Back in my day all the social engineering was done to humans.
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McDonalds gets millions of applications? wtf?
ETA: Yeah, I guess they do.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/13/mcdonalds-hiring-surge/83595827007/
I don't think you were quite grasping the scope the McDonald's operates at. That's only a couple hundred per location, and fast food restaurants tend to have extremely high turnover, so that's definitely not an unrealistic number.
ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?
One of us doesn't know what that stands for. I feel like the time my grandpa died, and mom sent me an email telling me "We're going to the funeral this Friday to pay respects to grandpa. LOL!"
I was quite confused. Turns out she grew up with "Lots Of Love". For a second she seemed like she turned into an absolute psychopath, for like....no reason.
ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?
In this context, it means "Edited To Add". I do wish they abbreviated it some other way, since "Estimated Time of Arrival" is a much more common meaning. I would accept "E2A" or something stupid, as long as it was more unique. Alternatively, they could just use "Edit:".
Edit: added link.
Oh no, we're out of letters!
This is my first time reading about this alternate "ETA" initialism. Interesting...
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They have over 40k locations. Many are 24/7. They also surely churn through employees, have many part time employees, and probably get many more applicants than they hire.
The employees will be hired by the franchisees but they still use the McDonalds software.
Millions is not a surprise to me at all. Perhaps that it's tens of millions is a little surprising, but it still seems within the realm of possibility.
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I'm so lucky that my password is hunter2
I don't know why you are getting so many upvotes for being a liar. Tried it on Lemmy.world and it doesn't work. I even tried it with a capital H.
All I see is *******?
That's cause I copied your password but it shows up as *******
See: hunter2
I forgot what it was referring to and searched a bit
https://web.archive.org/web/20060212043925/http://www.bash.org/?244321
ah... classic.
Fuck i am old.
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In the future, actual hacking will just involve social engineering corporate ai systems ( aka prompt hijacking )
"Spaceballs: the HR Robot"
Seriously though, who the fuck uses 123456 as the password for anything? The morons pulling shit like this are making bank while the people brought onboard by McDonalds make scratch by comparison, and would be crucified for fucking up even a fraction as much as this. Millions, with six zeroes, millions of applicants' data stolen from an account with the kind of password that a kid would use on their home computer. Fuck, this makes me so mad, the sheer incompetence.
The bitlocker code for the desktop I sometimes use at work is 123456789. I asked IT who was the idiot that decided that was a good idea. The CTO apparently.
You just know new hires there must have to watch some anodyne video about data security that mentions secure passwords too.
I did something kinda similar when I applied. Why put effort into remembering a new password when I was only going to use it once to fill out a job ap? Wants anyone even going to do with my account?
Goddamn it man, not the user account password, the fucking admin account password. Did you even read the article? Every single user account's information was compromised, not one random jerk with 123456 for their password.
Not the person you were responding to, but... Did I read the article stuck behind a paywall? No, no I did not
Edit: ah I see the non paywall link now
Why do you even need a hiring bot for McDonalds? Maybe for managers but a McJob is a McJob.
I help folks with disabilities get jobs, so I'm familiar. I generally avoid fast food for my people, because it's degrading and no one really wants a McJob. That being said, the bot actually makes it easier to apply, and they immediately schedule an interview...because they don't care what your resume says and they just need warm bodies to throw at angry customers. Again, I avoid it for my folks wherever possible.
A lot of companies use Paradox. They shit canned all their HR down to the bare bones and hired Olivia, which the Paradox recruiter I worked with said is so bad he has to take over answering in chat half the time.
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