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Episode: McDonald’s apologizes for global system outage that shut down some stores for hours
Description: McDonald’s apologized for a global technology outage that shuttered some restaurants for hours on March 15.
The company said the outage was caused by a third-party technology provider and was not a cybersecurity issue. It started around 12 a.m. CDT during a configuration change and was close to being resolved about 12 hours later, the Chicago-based company said.
“Reliability and stability of our technology are a priority, and I know how frustrating it can be when there are outages. I understand that this impacts you, your restaurant teams and our customers,” Brian Rice, the company’s global chief information officer, said in a sta...