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Fast food giant McDonald’s suffers global tech outage

A man reads a notice in the window of a closed McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, as the company said operations in several countries were disrupted by a system outage on March 15, 2024 [Rocky Swift/Reuters]

Fast food giant McDonald’s has experienced systems failures in several countries that led to some of its restaurants being shuttered for hours, but ruled out cybersecurity issues as a potential cause of the problem.

The United States-based chain said the “technology outage” on Friday affected operations in outlets around the world, including Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom.

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