McDonalds Japan spreads spyware on mp3 players

[Mooney]

From www.darknet.org.uk/:

This is pretty funny, but frankly typical of McDonalds..act before they think, it’s cheap, it’ll get more customers, whack it out!

 

They gave out a bunch of flash drive mp3 players as a promotion, it turns out every single one was loaded with a fairly nasty piece of spyware!

 

McDonalds Japan has launched a recall after discovering that MP3 players it offered as a prize were loaded with a particularly nasty strain of malware. Up to 10,000 people might have been exposed to the problem after claiming a Flash MP3 player pre-loaded with ten tunes and a variant of the QQpass spyware Trojan.

 

Not nice eh? Pretty bad too as it doesn’t just track your surfing habits, it actually sends out your passwords over the web.

 

Punters received the contaminated gift after purchasing a large drink form the fast-food chain in Japan and submitting a serial number contained on the beverage holder as part of a competition, sponsored by McDonalds and Coca-cola. Users who connected the McDonalds-branded MP3 player to their Windows PC were exposed to spyware code programmed to transmit their web passwords and other sensitive information to hackers. The cause of the accidental infection is unclear but past experience suggests a contaminated machine involved in loading content onto the players is the likely culprit.

 

They are really sorry, honestly..

 

McDonalds Japan has apologized for the cock-up and established a helpline designed to handle the recall of the infected MP3 players and send out uncontaminated music gizmos. A Japanese-language statement also explains how punters can cleanse potentially infected PCs

Wow... McDonalds really IS super-evil! They want your soul... SUPERSIZED!

 

Thoughts?

[gymnist1026]

hehe...they are trying to kill people, and since Japanese people are healthier then the american slobs, they decided to attack the computers instead...

 

McDonalds: Over 1 Billion Hackers Served

[GodPigeon]

Maybe We should just go to Burger King and Have it our way because according to this, Mcdonalds dont love to see japan Smile

[Mooney]

Maybe We should just go to Burger King and Have it our way because according to this, Mcdonalds dont love to see japan Smile

But if you go to BK, that creepy King dude will sleep with you...

[Rag]

Maybe We should just go to Burger King and Have it our way because according to this, Mcdonalds dont love to see japan Smile

But if you go to BK, that creepy King dude will sleep with you...

 

Sounds like you say that out of personal experience.

[Cominus]

Maybe We should just go to Burger King and Have it our way because according to this, Mcdonalds dont love to see japan Smile

But if you go to BK, that creepy King dude will sleep with you...

 

Sounds like you say that out of personal experience.

[James]

Maybe We should just go to Burger King and Have it our way because according to this, Mcdonalds dont love to see japan Smile

But if you go to BK, that creepy King dude will sleep with you...

 

 

Did it hurt ?

[L.S.D]

Maybe We should just go to Burger King and Have it our way because according to this, Mcdonalds dont love to see japan Smile

But if you go to BK, that creepy King dude will sleep with you...

 

 

Did it hurt ?

I bet it did

[Mooney]

Maybe We should just go to Burger King and Have it our way because according to this, Mcdonalds dont love to see japan Smile

But if you go to BK, that creepy King dude will sleep with you...

 

Sounds like you say that out of personal experience.