McDonald’s: “Do you want hacking with that?”

News arrives via E Hacking News that the official Mcdonald’s website in Thailand (www.mcthai.co.th) has been compromised by a chap called “Maxney” from the Turkish Agent Hacker Group.

The security breach resulted in the harvesting of details for some 2,000 accounts, including users’ names, email addresses, postal addresses and phone numbers.

Amongst the details leaked by the group were the login for the Administrator account and a link to McDonald’s Thailand Office Mail Login. The password of the administrator is in plain text. They are using a weak password; the password is ‘password’.

If all other multinational corporations took the same rigorous precautions as McDonald’s…