{"id":346882,"date":"2025-09-08T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=395254"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:56:50","slug":"the-owner-of-burger-king-and-popeyes-suffers-a-cyberattack-that-describes-its-security-practices-as-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-owner-of-burger-king-and-popeyes-suffers-a-cyberattack-that-describes-its-security-practices-as-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"The owner of Burger King and Popeyes suffers a cyberattack that describes its security practices as terrible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Restaurant Brands International (RBI), owner of well-known chains such as Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons, has been the target of a cyber attack that revealed serious vulnerabilities in its IT security. <strong>Two hackers, known as BobDaHacker and BobTheShoplifter, published a blog detailing their findings, highlighting their ability to access all RBI establishments and listen to conversations in the drive-thrus<\/strong>. In the post, which was online briefly on September 6, the hackers expressed their surprise at what they called &#8220;terrible security practices.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cybersecurity is important<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hackers claimed that, although they had found catastrophic security flaws, they did not retain any customer data during their investigation, and assured that they followed responsible disclosure protocols. <strong>Their intention, according to them, was to expose security issues to improve the company&#8217;s protection<\/strong>. However, the blog post was removed 24 hours after its release, after RBI filed a DMCA complaint, although it can still be accessed through Wayback Machine.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chicken Dippers\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/859lfAW-Dvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the seriousness of the situation, the hackers praised RBI&#8217;s response speed in addressing the identified vulnerabilities, although the company has not issued direct comments on the matter. <strong>&#8220;RBI&#8217;s response was impressive,&#8221; the attackers noted, reiterating that no customers were harmed during the process<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This incident highlights the need for companies to strengthen their security measures in an environment where cyberattacks are becoming increasingly common. <strong>The situation of RBI could serve as a serious reminder of the risks of digital security<\/strong>, and the fact that these vulnerabilities were discovered by hackers for improvement purposes should spark a debate on how companies manage their cyber defenses.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Avast Free Antivirus\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/2d9f9134-96d0-11e6-bf8f-00163ec9f5fa\/1408299994\/avast-Avast_Symbol_V2_Positive_Orange_256x256.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Avast Free Antivirus<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/avast.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/avast.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant Brands International (RBI), owner of well-known chains like Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons, has been the target of a cyber attack that revealed serious vulnerabilities in its IT security. 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In the post, which was online briefly on September 6, the hackers expressed their surprise at what they called &#8220;terrible security practices.&#8221; Cybersecurity is important The hackers claimed that, although they had found flaws in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":346883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[15768,15769,15770,5605,15771,2216,15772,15773,15774,15775,3808],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[7176],"class_list":["post-346882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bobdahacker","tag-bobtheshoplifter","tag-burger-kings","tag-ciberseguridad","tag-drive-thrus","tag-hackers","tag-popeyes","tag-practicas-de-seguridad-terribles","tag-rbi","tag-restaurant-brands-international","tag-seguridad","content-category-seguridad-privacidad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346891,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346882\/revisions\/346891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346882"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=346882"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=346882"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=346882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}