"McDonald's Issues Apology After Global System Outage Shuts Down Stores for Hours"

McDonald's experienced a global technology outage caused by a third-party provider, not a cybersecurity issue, which affected some restaurants for hours. The company apologized for the inconvenience and assured that it was working urgently to resolve the issue. The outage was not related to its shift to Google Cloud as a technology provider. Some restaurants were back to normal operations after the outage, with customers in various locations experiencing difficulties with ordering and payments.