Burger King just sent spam receipts to customers
(2022/08/09)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/08/09/burger_king_blank_receipts/
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Burger King has just served spam to many of its customers, who have complained they received an emailed receipt to advise them of a non-existent order for no food.
The tweet below is a typical example the receipt and the reaction.
Why did Burger King send me this blank receipt whilst i was sleeping at 5am? & i haven't been there in months [1]pic.twitter.com/8E8XLTiudJ — ev ᵔᴥᵔ (@crashbandiboob) [2]August 9, 2022
Plenty of other netizens have wondered if the emails are an indication of a security incident at the burger-slinging outfit and, if so, whether their personal information is at risk along with their health.
The Register is aware of customers in the USA and UK receiving the mail, but it is unclear if the source of the unwanted messages is BK HQ, or an outpost.
Our team has grilled Burger King about the situation to learn how the spam came to be served and, critically, if a security compromise was the cause.
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We will update this story if we receive a substantive reply.
[4]Scientist shares spicy pic of 'James Webb' discovery
[5]IBM adds side order of NLP to McDonald's AI drive-thru chatbots
[6]Big Blue scoffs a Happy Meal: McDonald's sells automated order-taking tech to IBM
[7]A Burger King where the only Whopper is the BSOD font
The mail storm caps a bad few days for BK's owner, Restaurant Brands International. Another of its brands – Canadian coffee shop and restaurant chain Tim Hortons – last week [8]settled a privacy lawsuit filed after it improperly collected customers' location data.
Supersizing its sins with a second helping of data-related drama would not go down well.
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Just like the chain's signature burgers without prior lubrication. ®
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[1] https://t.co/8E8XLTiudJ
[2] https://twitter.com/crashbandiboob/status/1556885225803759617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YvIwRc39oenbQ5QKIjvrDAAAABc&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/scientist_shares_spicy_pic_of/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/ibm/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/27/ibm_buys_mcdonalds_tech_labs/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/20/bork/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/30/in_brief_security/
[9] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YvIwRc39oenbQ5QKIjvrDAAAABc&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[10] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
The tweet below is a typical example the receipt and the reaction.
Why did Burger King send me this blank receipt whilst i was sleeping at 5am? & i haven't been there in months [1]pic.twitter.com/8E8XLTiudJ — ev ᵔᴥᵔ (@crashbandiboob) [2]August 9, 2022
Plenty of other netizens have wondered if the emails are an indication of a security incident at the burger-slinging outfit and, if so, whether their personal information is at risk along with their health.
The Register is aware of customers in the USA and UK receiving the mail, but it is unclear if the source of the unwanted messages is BK HQ, or an outpost.
Our team has grilled Burger King about the situation to learn how the spam came to be served and, critically, if a security compromise was the cause.
[3]
We will update this story if we receive a substantive reply.
[4]Scientist shares spicy pic of 'James Webb' discovery
[5]IBM adds side order of NLP to McDonald's AI drive-thru chatbots
[6]Big Blue scoffs a Happy Meal: McDonald's sells automated order-taking tech to IBM
[7]A Burger King where the only Whopper is the BSOD font
The mail storm caps a bad few days for BK's owner, Restaurant Brands International. Another of its brands – Canadian coffee shop and restaurant chain Tim Hortons – last week [8]settled a privacy lawsuit filed after it improperly collected customers' location data.
Supersizing its sins with a second helping of data-related drama would not go down well.
[9]
Just like the chain's signature burgers without prior lubrication. ®
Get our [10]Tech Resources
[1] https://t.co/8E8XLTiudJ
[2] https://twitter.com/crashbandiboob/status/1556885225803759617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YvIwRc39oenbQ5QKIjvrDAAAABc&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/scientist_shares_spicy_pic_of/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/ibm/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/27/ibm_buys_mcdonalds_tech_labs/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/20/bork/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/30/in_brief_security/
[9] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YvIwRc39oenbQ5QKIjvrDAAAABc&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[10] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Doctor Syntax
They're frittering away their money on this spam.
tellytart
I received around 3 or 4 of these. All to an e-mail address I only used for BK.
Anonymous IV
The BK email contains no link to opt out of marketing communications, or even just all communications...
It's not marketing
Geoff Campbell
Thing is, this looks like the ordering system has gone rogue and sent out a receipt for a null order. So this email template is the one you would receive if you had placed an order, so an "unsubscribe" link would make no sense.
Cock-up rather than conspiracy, I'm going to bet. But then, it normally is.
GJC
me too
Corp-Rat
I too received one of these dodgy missives. icon for a flame grilled whopper of a cook up
I'm old fashioned
Neil Barnes
I don't order food online, and I don't distribute my email to random retailers.
Our team has grilled Burger King about the situation to learn how the spam came to be served and, critically, if a security compromise was the cause.
A Whopper of a pun Mr Sharwood