"McDonald's Global Tech Outage Impacts Restaurants Worldwide"
TL;DR
McDonald's restaurants in Japan, Australia, the U.K., and other parts of the world experienced closures and suspended online orders due to a global technology outage, which the company stated was not a cybersecurity incident. The issue affected stores in multiple countries, prompting apologies to customers and assurances that the problem was being resolved. Despite speculation of a potential cyber attack, McDonald's clarified that the outage was not related to a security breach.
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