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If you want a job at McDonald’s, there’s a good chance you'll have to talk to Olivia. Olivia is not a human but an AI chatbot that screens applicants. And until recently, the platform that runs her suffered from absurdly basic security flaws.

wired.comMcDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

13/7/25, 11:56 pm103 reposts340 likes

Morgaine (they/them)

@morgaine0317.bsky.social

14 July 2025

This is embarrassing on many levels 😂

notrite132.bsky.social

@notrite132.bsky.social

14 July 2025

Damn, I thought everyone knew not to use that as a password! And "password" is NOT a good password either. I think I read about not using either in about 2002 ish.

Nobody is Everyone

@nobodyiseveryone.bsky.social

14 July 2025

All recruiters require cookies accepted = agree to share with the world if you wanna get to the fake applications for work for fake companies who scam the most vulnerable among us....AGAIN