Comparison Overview

McDonald's

VS

Panera Bread

McDonald's

110 N Carpenter St, None, Chicago, Illinois, US, 60607
Last Update: 2025-12-11

McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over 37,000 locations in over 100 countries. More than 90% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business men and women. McDonald's & our franchisees employ 1.9 million people worldwide. We serve the world some of its favorite foods - World Famous Fries, Big Mac, Quarter Pounder, Chicken McNuggets and Egg McMuffin. To learn more about the company, please visit www.aboutmcdonalds.com.

NAICS: 7225
NAICS Definition: Restaurants and Other Eating Places
Employees: 355,175
Subsidiaries: 6
12-month incidents
3
Known data breaches
6
Attack type number
2

Panera Bread

Last Update: 2025-12-11

Panera began in 1987 as St. Louis Bread Company, a humble community bakery founded with a sourdough starter from San Francisco and a dream of putting a loaf of bread in every arm. While our business has expanded well beyond St. Louis since then, that same sourdough starter is still used in our iconic sourdough bread and the craft of baking bread fresh each day remains at the heart of Panera Bread. Each day, our trained bakers fill our bakery shelves with delicious freshly baked cookies, pastries, bagels, and a range of breads from focaccia to classic baguettes. We believe in serving delicious, freshly prepared, clean food made with carefully selected ingredients that we are proud to serve our own families. Our menu, crafted by chefs and bakers, features classic, comforting dishes, each with an intriguing twist. We respect our planet and take measures to lessen our impacts. We believe in treating people with warmth, kindness, and respect, whether it’s a guest in our cafe or one of our associates. And we believe in helping our local communities, especially in times of need. We’re also focused on improving quality and convenience. With investments in technology and operations, we offer omni-channel access to your Panera favorites – like mobile ordering, catering, and Rapid Pick-Up® for to-go orders, Curbside pick-up and delivery – all designed to make things easier for our guests. Today, Panera operates as both Panera Bread® or Saint Louis Bread Co St. Louis Bread Company in 48 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. Panera Bread is privately held by JAB Holding Company. Panera Bread is part of Panera Brands, one of the largest fast-casual restaurant platforms in the U.S., comprised of Panera Bread®, Caribou Coffee® and Einstein Bros.® Bagels.

NAICS: 7225
NAICS Definition: Restaurants and Other Eating Places
Employees: 36,288
Subsidiaries: 0
12-month incidents
0
Known data breaches
2
Attack type number
2

Compliance Badges Comparison

Security & Compliance Standards Overview

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McDonald's
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
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Panera Bread
ISO 27001
ISO 27001 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 1
SOC2 Type 1 certification not verified
Not verified
SOC2 Type 2
SOC2 Type 2 certification not verified
Not verified
GDPR
GDPR certification not verified
Not verified
PCI DSS
PCI DSS certification not verified
Not verified
HIPAA
HIPAA certification not verified
Not verified
Compliance Summary
McDonald's
100%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified
Panera Bread
0%
Compliance Rate
0/4 Standards Verified

Benchmark & Cyber Underwriting Signals

Incidents vs Restaurants Industry Average (This Year)

McDonald's has 322.54% more incidents than the average of same-industry companies with at least one recorded incident.

Incidents vs Restaurants Industry Average (This Year)

No incidents recorded for Panera Bread in 2025.

Incident History — McDonald's (X = Date, Y = Severity)

McDonald's cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Incident History — Panera Bread (X = Date, Y = Severity)

Panera Bread cyber incidents detection timeline including parent company and subsidiaries

Notable Incidents

Last 3 Security & Risk Events by Company

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McDonald's
Incidents

Date Detected: 8/2025
Type:Vulnerability
Attack Vector: Client-Side Manipulation (Mobile App Reward Points), Unauthenticated API Endpoints (Design Hub, GRS Panel), URL Manipulation (Login to Register Bypass), Weak Authentication (Password '123456' in Hiring System), Exposed API Keys (Magicbell, Algolia), Impersonation Feature in Employee Portals, HTML Injection via Unauthenticated Admin APIs, Misconfigured Access Controls (Stravito, TRT Tool)
Motivation: Ethical Disclosure, Security Awareness, Responsible Vulnerability Reporting
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 7/2025
Type:Vulnerability
Attack Vector: Weak Default Credentials, Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 6/2025
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog
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Panera Bread
Incidents

Date Detected: 3/2024
Type:Breach
Attack Vector: Unauthorized access to customer database, Third-party cloud platform compromise
Motivation: Likely financial (data sold on dark web)
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 2/2024
Type:Ransomware
Blog: Blog

Date Detected: 04/2018
Type:Breach
Blog: Blog

FAQ

McDonald's company demonstrates a stronger AI Cybersecurity Score compared to Panera Bread company, reflecting its advanced cybersecurity posture governance and monitoring frameworks.

McDonald's company has faced a higher number of disclosed cyber incidents historically compared to Panera Bread company.

In the current year, McDonald's company has reported more cyber incidents than Panera Bread company.

Panera Bread company has confirmed experiencing a ransomware attack, while McDonald's company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Both Panera Bread company and McDonald's company have disclosed experiencing at least one data breach.

Neither Panera Bread company nor McDonald's company has reported experiencing targeted cyberattacks publicly.

McDonald's company has disclosed at least one vulnerability, while Panera Bread company has not reported such incidents publicly.

Neither McDonald's nor Panera Bread holds any compliance certifications.

Neither company holds any compliance certifications.

McDonald's company has more subsidiaries worldwide compared to Panera Bread company.

McDonald's company employs more people globally than Panera Bread company, reflecting its scale as a Restaurants.

Neither McDonald's nor Panera Bread holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification.

Neither McDonald's nor Panera Bread holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Neither McDonald's nor Panera Bread holds ISO 27001 certification.

Neither McDonald's nor Panera Bread holds PCI DSS certification.

Neither McDonald's nor Panera Bread holds HIPAA certification.

Neither McDonald's nor Panera Bread holds GDPR certification.

Latest Global CVEs (Not Company-Specific)

Description

FreePBX Endpoint Manager is a module for managing telephony endpoints in FreePBX systems. Versions prior to 16.0.96 and 17.0.1 through 17.0.9 have a weak default password. By default, this is a 6 digit numeric value which can be brute forced. (This is the app_password parameter). Depending on local configuration, this password could be the extension, voicemail, user manager, DPMA or EPM phone admin password. This issue is fixed in versions 16.0.96 and 17.0.10.

Risk Information
cvss4
Base: 6.9
Severity: LOW
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Description

Neuron is a PHP framework for creating and orchestrating AI Agents. In versions 2.8.11 and below, the MySQLWriteTool executes arbitrary SQL provided by the caller using PDO::prepare() + execute() without semantic restrictions. This is consistent with the name (“write tool”), but in an LLM/agent context it becomes a high-risk capability: prompt injection or indirect prompt manipulation can cause execution of destructive queries such as DROP TABLE, TRUNCATE, DELETE, ALTER, or privilege-related statements (subject to DB permissions). Deployments that expose an agent with MySQLWriteTool enabled to untrusted input and/or run the tool with a DB user that has broad privileges are impacted. This issue is fixed in version 2.8.12.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 9.4
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Description

Neuron is a PHP framework for creating and orchestrating AI Agents. Versions 2.8.11 and below use MySQLSelectTool, which is vulnerable to Read-Only Bypass. MySQLSelectTool is intended to be a read-only SQL tool (e.g., for LLM agent querying, however, validation based on the first keyword (e.g., SELECT) and a forbidden-keyword list does not block file-writing constructs such as INTO OUTFILE / INTO DUMPFILE. As a result, an attacker who can influence the tool input (e.g., via prompt injection through a public agent endpoint) may write arbitrary files to the DB server if the MySQL/MariaDB account has the FILE privilege and server configuration permits writes to a useful location (e.g., a web-accessible directory). This issue is fixed in version 2.8.12.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.2
Severity: LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Description

Okta Java Management SDK facilitates interactions with the Okta management API. In versions 11.0.0 through 20.0.0, race conditions may arise from concurrent requests using the ApiClient class. This could cause a status code or response header from one request’s response to influence another request’s response. This issue is fixed in version 20.0.1.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 8.4
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Description

The Auth0 Next.js SDK is a library for implementing user authentication in Next.js applications. When using versions 4.11.0 through 4.11.2 and 4.12.0, simultaneous requests on the same client may result in improper lookups in the TokenRequestCache for the request results. This issue is fixed in versions 4.11.2 and 4.12.1.

Risk Information
cvss3
Base: 5.4
Severity: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N