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McDonald's

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Founded in 1940 by Richard and Maurie McDonald, McDonald's Corporation is an American fast food restaurant chain with a net worth of $230.52 billion and owning 36,500 stores across 100 countries.[1] Besides food services, McDonald's offers other services and product with their own AI assistant named Olivia and the McDonald's App.

McDonald's
File:McDonald's Golden Arches.svg.webp
Basic information
Founded 1940-05-15
Legal Structure Public
Industry Food
Also known as
Official website https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/home.html

McDonald's is part of several organizations and partnerships, like the National Restaurant Association, International Franchise Association and google cloud partnership.

Consumer-impact summary

  • Privacy Concerns
  • Security Vulnerabilities
  • Holding security risks from public



Incidents

Controversy Year Background Info Aftermath
McDonald's Japan Malware Attack 2006 https://www.spamfighter.com/News-6650-McDonalds-Unwittingly-Distributes-Contaminated-Prizes.htm

https://techcrunch.com/2006/10/16/mcdonalds-mp3-players-come-with-malware/

2010 https://thehackernews.com/2010/12/hackers-steal-mcdonalds-customer-data.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/12/14/132056338/mcdonald-s-loses-customer-information-in-database-breach

2014
McDonald's Driving Intercom Hack 2016 https://hackread.com/mcdonalds-drive-thru-intercom-wireless-frequency-system-hacked/
McDonald's Inida Leak 2017 Delete column and create incident of this, to long. https://hackernoon.com/mcdonalds-india-is-leaking-2-2-million-users-data-d5758b2eb3f8
2021 On June 11, https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/mcdonalds-cyberattack-exposes-data-in-the-us-and-south-korea/

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/11/business/mcdonalds-data-breach

McDonald's South Korea and Taiwan Hack McDonald's was hacked in Taiwan, US (though very minimal impact) and South Korea that included customers emails, phone numbers, and delivery addresses. Details for this lawsuits remain space, however the company did report of it not being ransomware and collaborating with authorities on the issue. https://cyberscoop.com/mcdonalds-hack-korea-taiwan-customers/

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/95404-mcdonalds-corp-suffers-data-breach https://www.itpro.com/security/data-breaches/359862/personal-data-exposed-in-mcdonalds-data-breach

McDonald's fined for storing customer's data 2023 Hackers access personal data of 4.87 million customers due to McDonald's containing backup files of customers and not removing files after data retention period expired. [2][3] McDonald's was fined 696 million wan ($532,110 )
;) 2025 NOTE TO SELF: CREATE INCIDENT https://www.zataz.com/a-hacker-exposes-critical-mcdonalds-flaws-behind-a-simple-nugget-hunt/

https://riskpundit.com/tag/mcdonalds/

https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/mcd-google-cloud-announce-partnership.html (google partnership official)

Lawsuits

Controversy Year Background Info Aftermath
McDonald's McLibel Trial Longest trial in british history McDonald's was found guilty
McDonald's violation of Illinois data protection law 2021 On July 20. Carpenter filled a class action lawsuit against McDonald's for collection of customers voice prints without prior consent. McDonald's attempted to dismiss the claim, arguing any voice data collected didn't meet criteria for an voiceprint because it doesn't identify an individual, however the dismissal was denied. [4][5] Still in progress
McDelivery orders Data Breach in South Korea 2021 Customers who placed an McDelivery order in South Korea were affected by an data breach that exposes customers’ addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. [6] [7] Case was dropped, both agreed to cover their own cost, however settlement agreements are unknown.
2025 On December 23, Mcdonalds https://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/mcdonalds-sued-over-mcrib-ingredients/

See also

References

  1. ↑ "How Many McDonald's Restaurants Are There in the United States?". Locations Cloud. 2026-01-20. Retrieved 2026-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ↑ "McDonald's Korea fined $540k over data breach". QSR Media Asia. 2026-02-05. Retrieved 2026-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ "McDonald's Korea fined 696 million won for breach of customers' personal data". Korea JoonAng Daily. 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2026-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ↑ Blakey, John (2021-05-28). "Carpenter v. McDonald's Corporation (1:21-cv-02906)". Court Listener. Retrieved 2026-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ "McDonald's seeks ban to forbid confidential consumer information disclosure in voice data lawsuit". PogowasRight. 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2026-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ Edwards, Jessy (2021-10-07). "McDelivery Customers Serve McDonald's Class Action Lawsuit After Data Breach". Top Class Action. Retrieved 2026-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ↑ Shaak, Erin (2021-10-07). "McDonald's Hit with Class Action Over April 2021 Data Breach [DISMISSED]". ClassAction. Retrieved 2026-02-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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