McDonald's hacked and customer data stolen

McDonald's servers were recently compromised and hackers were able to get access to customers' e-mail addresses, names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, genders, as well as certain information about their promotional preferences and Web information interests. The sites affected were: McDonalds.com, 365Black.com, McDonalds.ca, mcdonaldsmom.com, mcdlive.com, monopoly.com, playatmcd.com, and meencanta.com.

Read the whole story

OH MAH GOD THEY STOLE MY FREE BIG MAC OFFER!!!

I'm lovin' it

Why would McDonalds need customers email addresses?
Do they send out email alerts?

Dear __Valued Customer,
Today is your lucky day! You and ___1.2 billion__other lucky recipients are cordially invited to McDonalds to __witness the bimonthly changing of the deep fry oil__on the__11th January 2011__.
We will be running a __24 hour__ offer to mark this special occasion, which consists of __a 65% chance that the cashier speaks your language__and__a mostly disease free burger assembly staff who aren't hopped up on illegal substances__
Looking forward to __watching you visibly age whilst waiting for your order_and once again providing you with that special McDonalds experience.

Best wishes and seasonal greetings,
Day Shift Manager, Franchise #275698854

What kind of ***** would give McD's ANY kind of personal information?

It was the Hamburglar, an inside job.

A fat *****?

Thumbs up!

an apology letter from McDonald " We are sorry to all our customers, we are working around the clock to correct this security exploit. We are giving all of out registered customers a free BIG MAC meal (with super size of course) and a free shake. These meals can be redeemed at your local McDonalds nationwide. Please be patient with us as we correct this issue"

This is getting intense. Gawker Media, McDs, and DeviantART. I wonder what's next?

Let's see. What shall I do today? I know, I'll give my personal information to Ronald McDonald. I'm sure it will be safe with him. Oh, bye the way. Could I have my identity theft SuperSized?

YES! Thank you sooo much for that. Quite frankly I think that just made my day.

If you see my some geeky looking kid coming everyday with free coupons, it was probably him, notify your local authorities immediately, he is a threat to national security, matter of fact grab a gat turn it sideways and get gangsta on his ***

There should be always a certain number of honeypot accounts/data in every system, so would be easier to get some leads when being contacted with data from the accounts.

I agree, I think it was the Hamburgler, in the Play Pen, with the Verizon netbook.