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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: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 02 2019, @12:53PM (14 children)
Consuming $1500 of McDonald's "food" in two weeks is its own punishment.
Morgan Spurlock made a whole documentary about that called "Supersize Me."
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday May 02 2019, @01:03PM (1 child)
The thief probably treated all his teenage buddies to a free meal, so the risks of diabetes and morbid obesity are distributed.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 02 2019, @01:42PM
You're probably right, but thanks a lot for de-fanging my post, dude.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:51PM (1 child)
I had a McGangbang a couple weeks ago. It was ok.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 02 2019, @04:44PM
I stopped those, because regardless of who was involved, it always felt the same and a bit cheap, with a unpleasant aftertaste which makes you question your choices and their impact on your health.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:41PM (5 children)
POTUS would disagree that McDonalds is a punishment.
Standard Order: (according to MSM)
* 2 Big Macs (yuk!)
* 2 Filet O' Fish (double yuk!)
* Large gelatenous goo Shake
This is not a political comment about any policy or party.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(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.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:56PM (2 children)
"* 2 Filet O' Fish (double yuk!)"
Yum! They got 2 of them on special for $5 at the one within walking distance. Had that yesterday.
(Hey if my arteries cave in before my time, at least I'll have enjoyed it.)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday May 03 2019, @02:14PM (1 child)
I can think of better ways to go than from eating McDonalds.
There is Taco Bellyache.
Or Taco Johns.
Trump promised that if Hillary had won we would have a Taco truck on every street corner, which sounded like a good idea to me.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Saturday May 04 2019, @04:01PM
I'm not as big a fan of Mexican food as some, so Taco Bell and Johns are less likely for me. (I'm one of those that tastes cilantro as soapy).
That said, the Taco truck that came by work in Albuquerque when I lived there had some great stuff. Their quesadillas were a real treat. And if they have sopapillas and honey to put on them, I'm so there. Horchata's good too.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:52PM
A close friend once referred to it as "Ronald's revenge"....haha...never gets old.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @08:28PM (1 child)
They will need at least 4 years of gym, dieting and counselling after such a junk food binge. And that last 5 pounds, just won't leave!
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:59PM
He may be trying to expand presidential powers, but he's definitely expanding the president.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Magic Oddball on Friday May 03 2019, @01:40AM
Most of the results in Super-size Me were linked to the fact that he intentionally ate far more than he normally did and stopped exercising — others who tried the same experiment [wikipedia.org] while exercising regularly and eating the same amount as normal saw minimal effects and/or a decrease in weight & cholesterol levels.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday May 02 2019, @12:59PM
to an untrusted app - that is, almost every app out there realistically, but particularly a stupid app to pay faster at a burger joint - deserves everything they get.
Whatever happened to basic caution and thinking twice before signing up? Gee...
(Score: 3, Touché) by sshelton76 on Thursday May 02 2019, @01:02PM
Reading this article, the first thing that comes to mind is that it gives a whole new meaning to "Big Mac Attack".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ukIBKlrpMI [youtube.com]
Thank you I'll be here all day!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:16PM (1 child)
What makes him think it's a hack not a bug?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by donkeyhotay on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:33PM
Actually, that's a very reasonable question. I trend I'm noticing, even at my own company, is a tendency to develop in environments that are increasingly abstracted from the actual code, with the downloading of anonymous "widgets" from unknown "app stores", combined with an over confidence in agile methodology, which slaps apps together very quickly with a mere soupçon of testing. The result is a lot of mysterious bugs and other strange behavior that spookily comes and goes. We used to call them "phantom gripes". Every object in an app is just an abstraction, and if you can get weirdness with order numbers or addresses, why not credit card numbers too?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @02:54PM
I had just finished reading the comments [soylentnews.org] on the US Demographics article when I read this summary and was profoundly confused on how or why Hungarian hackers exploited Canadian McDonalds.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:17PM
McD, loser hacker's hot pockets. Obviously not elite hacker.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:37PM (1 child)
((It pays to advertise!)
(and annoys everyone else)
(actually, YOU pay to advertise))
Goods and services offered in commerce.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Friday May 03 2019, @12:01AM
"WILL HACK FOR FOOD !!!"
I thought a lot of us already did that. :)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 02 2019, @05:07PM
>The app had a transaction failure the first two times O'Rourke tried to use it, he said, so he gave up on it
Well the hackers obviously had no trouble using it.