"McDonald's Grapples with Global IT Outage, Halting Operations Worldwide"
TL;DR
McDonald's experienced a global technology system outage, predominantly affecting stores in Australia, due to a third-party provider's configuration change. The issue also impacted locations in countries like China, Japan, Canada, South Korea, and Taiwan. While some stores closed entirely, others only accepted cash payments. McDonald's has since resolved the issue and is working to bring affected markets back online, emphasizing that the outage was not related to cybersecurity.
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