McDonald's IT systems outage impacts restaurants worldwide

[Num7]

Have you heard of this?

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McDonald's restaurants are suffering global IT outages that prevent employees from taking orders and accepting payments, causing some stores to close for the day.

The outages started overnight and are impacting restaurants globally, including those in the USA, Japan, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, New Zealand, and the UK.

"We are aware of a technology outage, which impacted our restaurants; the issue is now being resolved," McDonald's said in a statement to BleepingComputer.

"We thank customers for their patience and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Notably, the issue is not related to a cybersecurity event."

McDonald's Japan has apologized on X, stating that many stores around the country have temporarily closed due to the point of sale system outages.

News of the outage quickly spread on Reddit, with employees sharing that they are unable to take orders, process payments, or open cash registers because the point of sale (POS) systems are down.

McDonald's IT systems outage impacts restaurants worldwide

McDonald's restaurants are suffering global IT outages that prevent employees from taking orders and accepting payments, causing some stores to close for the day.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

 

[Beholder]

Never good to have a single point of failure. Should have used local servers and just report what they sold at the end of the day.

 

[Wind7]

Have you heard of this?

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McDonald's restaurants are suffering global IT outages that prevent employees from taking orders and accepting payments, causing some stores to close for the day.

The outages started overnight and are impacting restaurants globally, including those in the USA, Japan, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, New Zealand, and the UK.

"We are aware of a technology outage, which impacted our restaurants; the issue is now being resolved," McDonald's said in a statement to BleepingComputer.

"We thank customers for their patience and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Notably, the issue is not related to a cybersecurity event."

McDonald's Japan has apologized on X, stating that many stores around the country have temporarily closed due to the point of sale system outages.

News of the outage quickly spread on Reddit, with employees sharing that they are unable to take orders, process payments, or open cash registers because the point of sale (POS) systems are down.

McDonald's IT systems outage impacts restaurants worldwide

McDonald's restaurants are suffering global IT outages that prevent employees from taking orders and accepting payments, causing some stores to close for the day.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

Hadn't heard this until now. Yikes!

 

[Num7]

Yeah, it's quite a surprise when you think about it. Something made their whole system go down. Wow, not good at all. I find that highly unusual. The enormous sums of money they invested in their infrastructure to avoid this precise scenario are unimaginable. Yet, it happened!

 

[Mayhem]

People were moaning they didnt know how to order without the app i think probably scrambling for cash as well.

I dont remember Maccas ever having any widespread issues across the globe like this before,?

 

[8thsinner]

Oh goody. Lets hope they lose so much they start closing and stop serving people lovely flavored deadly poisons.

 

[Wind7]

"Something made their whole system go down"