Burger King’s name just got flame-grilled in the security world. As a result, a pair of ethical hackers cracked open the fast food giant’s systems, exposing what they described as “catastrophic” vulnerabilities. In the end, their verdict landed hard: RBI’s digital walls were about as tough as a soggy Whopper wrapper.
Burger King hacked after duo exposed glaring flaws
The white-hat duo, BobDaHacker and BobTheShoplifter, didn’t hold back in their takedown. The hackers claimed in their now-removed blog (archived elsewhere) that RBI’s platforms were so wide open, someone may as well have handed them the keys. RBI, or Restaurant Brands International, runs Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes over 30,000 locations combined, and apparently, all used the same broken tech stack.
“We were impressed,” the hackers joked, “by their commitment to terrible security practices.”
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What the hackers found inside Burger King’s systems
The pair accessed everything from internal ordering systems to employee accounts and even drive-thru audio logs. That’s not just a privacy breach, it’s a full buffet of vulnerabilities. Here’s what they could do once inside:
- Read and modify internal support tickets
- Access and reset employee credentials
- Tap into live or recorded drive-thru conversations
- Submit fake orders or tamper with existing ones
- Identify backend infrastructure with ease
And they pulled all this off through public-facing subdomains, like assistant.bk.com, that had no proper authentication or protections in place.
Tim Hortons, Popeyes, and Burger King were hacked in the same exact way
Still, this wasn’t just a Burger King problem. In fact, RBI seemed to have cloned its faulty systems across multiple brands. As a result, identical flaws showed up in the assistant portals for Popeyes and Tim Hortons. Each one shared the same loopholes, making them easy targets.
Despite responsibly disclosing the issue, the hackers say RBI never even replied. No bug bounty. No, thank you. Just silence.
The fast fix, and the silent response
After the blog post went live, RBI moved quickly. RBI patched all the vulnerable endpoints and shut the backdoors. But the company didn’t credit or acknowledge the people who reported it. That silence didn’t go unnoticed.
No crown for Burger King’s security throne
Still, when security feels like an afterthought, someone is bound to call it out sooner or later. Luckily for Burger King, this breach came from white-hat hackers with a sense of humor—rather than bad actors with worse intentions.
Next time, they might not get the courtesy of a warning.
