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'123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants

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111 points nan60 | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 21:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.601s | source
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micw ◴[11 Jul 25 23:15 UTC] No.44537761[source]▶
Wait, 64 million applicants, not applications? That's like 20% of the US population!
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mousethatroared ◴[12 Jul 25 00:32 UTC] No.44538216[source]▶
Others have said it's for the global site, but would 64 million really be that off for the US?

I just looked it up 13 of the 40k francises are in the US. Assuming linearity, thats about 21 million US applicants since they started keeping centralized, digital records.

20% of Americans younger than 40 is not a bad guess.

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1. crazygringo ◴[12 Jul 25 01:15 UTC] No.44538449[source]▶
Which is 1,615 applicants per US franchise.

Seems totally reasonable to me.

2 shifts of 12 employees is 24 employees per day. Assume they all work there for 6 months on average, then if the system's been up for 10 years, that's 480 employees per franchise over a decade. Which means for every employee they hired, 2 were either rejected or chose not to work there.

Working at McD's is something a lot of people do for a few months when they're young.