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McDonald's Thailand Serves 2000 Customers with a Side of Data Leak

Bogdan Botezatu

October 23, 2012

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McDonald's Thailand Serves 2000 Customers with a Side of Data Leak

Some 2,000 McDonald`s customers in Thailand have had their data exposed following a successful data breach claimed by a group of Turkish hackers that also breached the Hungarian division of Pepsi.

According to a report published by the CyberWarnews outlet , the hack carried by the Turkish Agent Hacker Group yielded physical and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and registration dates as well as other private information. These details were dumped on Pastebin.

Yesterday`s hack was no sophisticated attack ” it was possible because of the default administrative login credentials “administrator” and “password”.

It appears that the hack of the McDonald`s Thai website is also a form of religious protest, just as in the case of the Pepsi breach. Yesterday`s incident, however, ended with serious collateral damage: 2,000 innocent users` private information making it on the Internet.

Although the leaked information does not contain credit card numbers or other financial information, it may be used in targeted voice phishing attacks.

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