According to Reuters, McDonald’s Corp has just announced that hackers gained access to a database containing an unidentified number of email address and birthdates for the strange breed of person who goes to McDonald’s’ websites and decides to subscribe.
On the one hand, the hack is less invasive than the Gawker hack, because it doesn’t appear that passwords were compromised. On the other hand, McDonald’s is being cagey about the actual numbers of customers involved… and while credit card numbers, passwords and social security numbers were not compromised, birthdays were… making it possible on some sites for those email addresses to be paired with birthday security questions.
Gawker and McDonald’s aren’t the only huge breaches in the last week. On Friday, Walgreens admitted that one of their databases containing customer email addresses had been breached as well. [Geek]
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