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It's unclear if there is one mysterious Hamburglar hacker or multiple scammers, but for months, users of the Canadian McDonald's app, "My McD's," have been complaining about someone gaining access to their accounts to fuel their feeding frenzies.
Last week, Canadian journalist Patrick O'Rourke, managing editor of Mobile Syrup, became the latest known victim of this scam and published an account of his experience. Somehow a hacker gained access to his My McD's account, which was attached to his Mastercard. The app had a transaction failure the first two times O'Rourke tried to use it, he said, so he gave up on it. But over the next two weeks, someone else used it for their McBender—spending $2,034 CAD ($1,509 USD) on more than 100 meals of Big Macs, McFlurries, Chicken McNuggets, and poutine.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/hungry-hackers-use-mcdonalds-app-to-steal-1-500-in-fas-1834381636
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:01PM (1 child)
He's not the only President who likes fast food or McD's. Obama had the press trailing him to go to Five Guys. Bubba was famous for McD's binging.
Who knows if it's genuine or not, but it helps project an 'everyman' image.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:16PM
You could be right that some or all of these presidents simply do this for Public Image.
Based on enough accounts over time I do not believe McDonalds is an image thing for Trump. When concerned about image, Trump would eat something that ordinary people cannot afford. That is his style of bragging or showing off.
Others may be smarter and use fast food for image.
In any case, I think Five Guys, while not exactly "health food" is a big step up from McDonalds.
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