Privacy & Security

Now it’s McDonald’s Turn For its Email Userbase To Be Hacked

By Kat Hannaford Published December 14, 2010, 3:40 am ET

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Have you ever signed up for McDonald’s email newsletters, promotions or other such communication? It’s not been a good week for email security, as hackers caught the email addresses and birth dates of potentially millions of customers yesterday. [Reuters]

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