McDonald’s Canada Subject of Cyber-attack

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TORONTO — McDonald’s Canada announced that its career website was recently subject to a cyber-attack, compromising the personal information of applicants who applied online between March 2014 and March 2017.

Fortunately, the company’s application forms do not request highly sensitive personal information such as social insurance numbers, banking or health information. However, the personal information compromised included standard application information, such as applicant name, address, email address, phone number and employment background. The affected group includes approximately 95,000 restaurant job applicants.

When the privacy breach was discovered, McDonald’s shut down the site and launched an investigation. The careers webpage will remain shut down until the investigation is complete and appropriate measures are taken to ensure that this type of security breach does not happen again.

All applicants who were directly affected by this privacy breach will be notified by a letter in the mail. Where a mailing address was not provided in the application form, affected applicants will be contacted by using other contact information provided on the application form.

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