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'123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

64 million? Wtf, that seems like a lot

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's not that 64 million people had the password 123456, the admin panel had the password 123456, and using that they were able to access the data of 64 million applicants.