McDonald's has just had an international gap - here's how it can affect you
A cybercratrame compromised the chain data in several markets, including the United States.
Cyber attacks on large companies continue toMcDonalds happens to be the last victim of pirates! The company said on Friday that a violation of data in South Korea, Taiwan and the United States exposed some information about employees and clients, but the channel was able to react quickly and mitigate the scope of the incident.
"Although we were able to close access quickly after the identification, our investigation determined that a small number of files were accessible, some of which contained personal data," said the Burger chain, according toCBS News.
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Computer hackers were able to reach customer information, such as e-mails, telephone numbers and delivery addresses, South Korea and Taiwan. This last market also stole some of its information on its employees. However, no customer payment information has been compromised, the confirmation of McDonald is confirmed.
If you are an American customer, you can breathe a backup sigh - in the United States, the violation did not include any customer data. However,Wall Street newspaper Reports that the Chain has informed its US employees of certain commercial contact information compromised for US employees and franchisees, as well as information on the capacity of seats and area in playgrounds in some restaurants. The company stresses that the stolen data were not personal or sensitive and alerted employees to monitor phishing e-mails in the future.
McDonald's said he had conducted an investigation into an internal security system and cut unauthorized access per week after identification. The Company will inform the parties concerned as well as regulators and will use the investigation conclusions to further strengthen their cybersecurity.
This is just the last in a chain of cyberrattacks on large companies. While the attack did not disrupt McDonald's operations in any of the affected markets, JBS USA Holdings Inc. was not so lucky in aattack suffered earlier this month. The largest meat processing company in the world had all its closed American beef plants resulting in a major loss of production. To avoid avoiding disturbances in its facilities, JBS has been forced to pay aRansom of $ 11 million.
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