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The thread centers on a report that hackers infiltrated a business partner’s systems tied to certain McDonald’s websites, stealing limited customer data. Key details discussed are that the compromised information did **not** include Social Security numbers or credit card data, but included age-verification-related information, contact methods, and general preferences; an involved email-company system managed the customer database and was breached. Overall sentiment is factual/concerned, focused on clarifying the scope of the breach and what data was actually exposed.
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An unknown number of Link Removed after authorities discovered that hackers broke into one of the company's business partner's databases and stole information.

Computerworld quotes a McDonald's spokeswoman as saying:
We have been informed by one of our long-time business partners, Arc Worldwide, that limited customer information collected in connection with certain McDonald’s websites and promotions was obtained by an unauthorized third party.​
Arc partnered with an unidentified e-mail company to manage McDonald's customer information database. This e-mail company's systems were infiltrated.


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The information does not include Social Security numbers or credit card information, but rather what was required to confirm the customer’s age, methods to contact the customer and other general preference information, says the spokeswoman.
 

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