Fri. 06/11 – Now The Hackers Have Come For Our Hamburgers

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🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Moar… hacking news. McDonalds. Electronic Arts. Le sigh. Apple wants to do away with passwords too. Elon Musk unveils the Model S Plaid. An interesting Apple Car hire. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: TheLogic.co/subscribe promo code RIDE for 50% off Cybereason.com Links: McDonald’s Hit by Data Breach (Wall Street Journal) Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA (Vice) Apple says its new logon tech is as easy as passwords but far more secure (Cnet) Tesla begins deliveries of its new Model S Plaid (CNBC) Apple Hires Former BMW Executive for Its Rebooted Car Project (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The hard truth about ransomware: we aren’t prepared, it’s a battle with new rules, and it hasn’t near reached peak impact. (Double Pulsar) When ransomware strikes, this company helps victims make bitcoin payments (CNBC) APPLE ISN’T JUST A WALLED GARDEN, IT’S A CARRIER (The Verge) THE APP THAT MONETIZED DOING NOTHING (The Atlantic) Marcus Graham: Looking back on 10 years of Twitch’s experiment with livestreaming (Venture Beat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the tech meme ride home for Friday, June 11th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, more hacking news, McDonald's,
0:13.0	Arts, LeSai.
0:15.8	Apple wants to do away with passwords.
0:18.2	Elon Musk unveils the Model S Plaid,
0:21.5	an interesting Apple Car Hire, and of course the weekend long rate
0:25.0	suggestions. Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech. Well, what do you
0:30.8	want for me? More high- hacks to tell you about, though,
0:34.7	these seem to be just run-of-the-mill data breaches,
0:38.3	not ransomware attacks, as if that makes it better.
0:42.1	McDonald's says hackers breached its operations in some markets
0:46.2	exposing some U.S. business info and delivery customer data
0:50.8	in South Korea and Taiwan, quoting
0:54.1	CMBC. The Burger Chain said Friday that it recently
0:57.4	hired external consultants to investigate
0:59.4	unauthorized activity on an internal security
1:01.8	system prompted by a specific incident in which the
1:04.6	unauthorized access cut off a week after it was identified McDonald said.
1:09.8	The investigators discovered that company data had been breached in markets including the U.S.
1:14.2	South Korea and Taiwan, the company said.
1:16.6	In a message to U.S. employees, McDonald said the breach disclosed some business contact
1:20.6	information for U.S. employees and franchisees, along with some contact information
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