"McDonald's Global IT Outage Blamed on Configuration Change"
McDonald's attributes the recent global technology system outage to a third-party provider's configuration change, not a cyberattack, causing widespread closures and POS system outages in various countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, and New Zealand. The company's Chief Information Officer stated that the root issues have been identified and corrected, with many markets back online and the rest in the process of coming back online, while employees reported resorting to manual order-taking and cash payments due to the POS system failures.