{"id":27,"date":"2021-09-13T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/?p=27"},"modified":"2021-09-13T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:29:32","slug":"mcdonalds-email-blast-includes-password-to-monopoly-game-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/2021\/09\/13\/mcdonalds-email-blast-includes-password-to-monopoly-game-database\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s Email Blast Includes Password to Monopoly Game Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this article very entertaining because it is hard to believe such simple mistakes are made like this. Emails were blasted out to the winners of McDonald&#8217;s Monopoly game last week and within those emails contained userID and passwords that had access to a server containing the information for the game. McDonald&#8217;s has since stated that the passwords were changed and the initial email was due to a human error. It is just another example that no matter how robust the security of an organization is that the human element is always the most dangerous and unpredictable.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xug33NRGtn\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/mcdonalds-email-blast-includes-password-to-monopoly-game-database\/169346\/\">McDonald&#8217;s Email Blast Includes Password to Monopoly Game Database<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;McDonald&#8217;s Email Blast Includes Password to Monopoly Game Database&#8221; &#8212; Threatpost - English - Global - threatpost.com\" src=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/mcdonalds-email-blast-includes-password-to-monopoly-game-database\/169346\/embed\/#?secret=MAwIIXLgUU#?secret=xug33NRGtn\" data-secret=\"xug33NRGtn\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this article very entertaining because it is hard to believe such simple mistakes are made like this. Emails were blasted out to the winners of McDonald&#8217;s Monopoly game last week and within those emails contained userID and passwords that had access to a server containing the information for the game. McDonald&#8217;s has since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-3","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}