US Edition"Your Safety Is Like a Wet Whopper Wrapper": that's How Easy It Was to Hack Burger King.
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A group of ethical hackers, known as BobDaHacker and BobTheShoplifter, have revealed a series of "catastrophic" vulnerabilities in Restaurant Brands International (RBI) systems, the parent company of fast food giants such as Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes. And the way they describe it is as graphic as it is demolishing: "His safety was as solid as a Whopper wrapper in the rain." What they discovered was not a complex security hole that req…
White hat hackers discovered serious security vulnerabilities in Burger King's RBI information management system, including hard-coded passwords, unauthenticated API registration, and privilege escalation. The researchers deleted their blog post reporting the vulnerability due to trademark issues. The system also leaked customer recordings. The researchers responsibly reported the vulnerability and removed the content. Burger King and RBI have n…
Burger King hacked, systems described as 'solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain’ – hackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices,' also exploited other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and Popeyes
Ethical hackers have detailed how they uncovered 'catastrophic' vulnerabilities in various Burger King systems.
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