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McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast food chain, on Friday confirmed data breaches of some customers and employees in South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. McDonald’s internal network was hacked by unauthorised activity after external technicians were brought in.
Breach has people’s email, contact number and delivery address. According to the Washington Post, no customer payment information has been breached. The hackers also tried to break data into branches in South Africa and Russia, but are investigating whether they succeeded.
A few days ago, ransomware was used to hack into a colony pipeline supplying fuel to almost half of the world’s , east coast from the world’s largest meat processor JBS, but no ransomware was found in this McDonald’s attack.