"Hackers"
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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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
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. :')
"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
In the future, actual hacking will just involve social engineering corporate ai systems ( aka prompt hijacking )
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.
Paradox.ai’s chief legal officer, Stephanie King, told WIRED in an interview. “We own this.”
I didn't know Stephen King changed gender and is working for AI company.
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.
Speak for yourself, I'm holding out hope that the universe is actually a little fair, and that the dolt responsible to creating that password, and subsequently fucking over millions of people has their testicles ruptured. Who are these idiots?
They only did the right thing after getting caught openly doing the wrong thing, so I'd say I'd still be pissed.
They should have never put the system in place with such a simple vulnerability (which to me) says they take such a laxodasical approach to security that I wouldn't trust them even now.
"hackers"....
Love, secret, sex, and god.
The greatest hackers of all time: Crash Override and Acid Burn.
What was it? "Mess with the best, die like the rest" lol. Classic. Also Penn Jilette from Penn & Teller is in that.
Yup, that was it.
Not a good movie and the tech was atrocious but I love it anyway.
Not a good movie?!? Sir/madam, this is blasphemous.
Atrocious!? :)
“Yo. Check this out guys, this is insanely great, it's got a 28.8 BPS modem!”
Hack the planet, or in this case, hack the Big Mac!
"You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo."
lol, 17
Back in my day all the social engineering was done to humans.
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.
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.
Bash is kill?: (
Years, sadly.
it seems down at the moment
I don't have any more info
All I see is *******?
That's cause I copied your password but it shows up as *******
See: hunter2
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