McDonald’s Confirms Global Outage

McDonald’s has been hit by a system failure impacting restaurants across the globe. McDonald’s said in a statement this morning that it was aware of “a technology outage” that forced the closure of many locations, but insisted it was not caused by a cybersecurity event. Stores were left unable to handle customers and online and app orders were disrupted in countries as far apart as here in the United States to Australia, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The company’s statement went on to say that the issue is “now being resolved.”