Hackers steal data from McDonald's employees in the United States, South Korea and Taiwan

This is a new cyberattack received by a company based in the United States and that recorded just one day after Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, warned Congress that cyber threats “are increasing almost exponentially.”

A group of private consultants were hired by McDonald’s to investigate the violation of their internal security systems that discovered that the data from the company had been intervened at its headquarters in South Korea, Taiwan and the United States , according to a newspaper report The Wall Street Journal .

Unlike of cyberattacks registered to the Colonial Pipeline pipeline and from the meat processing company JBS , the attack on the hamburger chain’s systems did not cause the interruption of the company’s operations also that there are no records of the use of malware to extort and hijack the computer systems of the fast food giant .

So far McDonald’s has not disclosed how many people were affected by the theft of information. In the United States, employees and franchisees were contacted via email where they were informed of the violation of their systems, while In South Korea and Taiwan, hackers stole email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses of employees and some customers .