{"id":1172983,"date":"2022-08-10T14:11:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/burger-king-goes-rogue-sends-thousands-of-email-receipts-to-customers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:11:44","slug":"burger-king-goes-rogue-sends-thousands-of-email-receipts-to-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/burger-king-goes-rogue-sends-thousands-of-email-receipts-to-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Burger King goes rogue, sends thousands of email receipts to customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/d8060d61-a504-5dd2-a418-83c345d32e51&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=1167x200&amp;resize=2929x1649\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco \u2013 International fast food chain Burger King has randomly emailed thousands or millions of customers with a blank order email receipt, leaving them confused.<\/p>\n<p>The blank emails started appearing at around 12.15am, leaving Burger King customers confused about whether the company had been breached by a hungry hacker attempting a midnight feast or if the emails are simply a giant whopper of a mistake, reports The Verge.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users quickly turned to the social network in a state of confusion over the blank emails, with some even receiving two Burger King emails in an apparent double whopper of a mistake.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BurgerKing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BurgerKing<\/a> Hello. I received this email however I haven\u2019t placed an order or anything? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xcaApDmGj5\">pic.twitter.com\/xcaApDmGj5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael J Cherkassky (@MJCOffical) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MJCOffical\/status\/1557285720053751808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The franchise responded to individual tweets, saying: \u201cHi. Thank you for reaching out. We are aware of the issue and are investigating internally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The order emails are totally blank, and were sent by Burger King\u2019s main promotional marketing email address, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is no clear indication that Burger King has been breached.<\/p>\n<p>As per the report, a lot of people who have received the emails do not even remember creating a Burger King account, so it could simply be a system change that went wrong and blasted out blank orders to Burger King\u2019s entire marketing database.<\/p>\n<p>After the initial story made headlines, an email from \u201cBK PR Team\u201d responded to The Verge\u2019s request for more information, claiming the issue was \u201cthe result of an internal processing error.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>!function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d);<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/restaurants\/burger-king-goes-rogue-sends-thousands-of-email-receipts-to-customers-01acfdde-f526-5c2d-83f0-ec4967741577\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco \u2013 International fast food chain Burger King has randomly emailed thousands or millions of customers with a blank order email receipt, leaving them confused. The blank emails started appearing at around 12.15am, leaving Burger King customers confused about whether the company had been breached by a hungry hacker attempting a midnight feast or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}