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McDonald's hit by data breach
CNN
McDonald's is the latest high-profile company to be affected by a data breach, leading to the exposure of private information of customers and employees in South Korea and Taiwan.
The burger chain said in a statement Friday that an investigation revealed a "small number of files were accessed," some of which had personal data. McDonald's is contacting affected customers and regulators in the two areas and said that payment information wasn't accessed. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, said that a data breach also affected its operations in the United States. Data that was reportedly accessed included restaurant information, such as square footage, but not "sensitive or personal" customer or employee data.![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250216092711.jpg)
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