Wasnt it a security researcher and not a hacker?

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.

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.

The risk is that some unknown hacker discovered this vulnerability and abused it before the researchers discovered and reported it. It sounds like the company has confirmed that didn't happen, but they aren't 100% trustworthy in that regard, simply because they might have missed something.

"Hacker" doesn't always imply one acting with malicious intent.

yeah i know the risk, but the headline implies the data was exposed to a hacker who tried the password 123456 but thats not the case. A security researcher was investigating the application and accessed a test application with the password 123456 then found an API call which exposed the data and then he instantly reported it.

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.

They pay well everywhere but the US.

What does their basketball skills have to do with this?

/s

Many are 24/7.

Lies detected.

If the 90s taught me anything, it's that hacking is done exclusively on monochrome green monitors, with dos. Except once they hack in, the monitor is full color, and somehow has access to every video camera on the planet. With the ability to enhsnce resolution seemingly to magical levels where you can see a clear reflection in someones pupil.

ENHANCE!!!

Are you saying that there are not many McDonalds that advertise 24/7 service, or that they advertise this but don't actually provide it?

I've never seen any mcdonalds advertise or service 24/7 schedules. Not since the pandemic.

Walmart and Target stopped too.

Walgreens/CVS is the only thing I know that still does 24/7.

12345? Amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!

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.

I live in New Zealand and there are many 24/7 McDonalds in busy areas. Clicking randomly on their NZ map it's pretty easy to find them: https://mcdonalds.co.nz/find-us/restaurants

It's the same with Australia: https://mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurants

Actually, the same for the US. It's not hard to find 24/7 ones (you need to search for a city before they show on the map): https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/restaurant-locator.html

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.

This is my first time reading about this alternate "ETA" initialism. Interesting...

No.

This is completely different and unhackable. 12345......6!

With me they look away way before that because I’m usually jerking off