McDonald’s says an IT outage that precipitated mayhem throughout the nation shouldn’t be a “cybersecurity occasion” and is being resolved.
The interior programs at McDonald’s went offline about 3pm on Friday.
The problem reportedly impacted eating places world wide.
Along with Autralia, outages have reportedly affected eating places in New Zealand, the USA, Japan, components of Europe and Canada.
Some shops closed fully, whereas others had been solely taking money orders.
However in a press release late on Friday evening, McDonald’s mentioned the problem was being resolved.
“We’re conscious of a expertise outage which impacted our eating places; the problem is now being resolved,” the assertion learn.
“We thank clients for his or her endurance and apologise for any inconvenience this may occasionally have precipitated. Notably, the problem shouldn’t be associated to a cybersecurity occasion.
“We will affirm some eating places are again on-line and serving clients, and we’re persevering with to work to revive all remaining eating places as quickly as potential.”
One retailer had an indication on its door apologising for the technical bungle.
“As a result of a technical challenge, we’re unable to serve clients at the moment,” the signal learn.
“We apologise for any inconvenience and hope to be again up and operating quickly, nonetheless the matter is out of our management.”
Offended — and hungry — clients vented their frustrations on-line.
One individual wrote on social media: “Ahhhh it’s the top! We’re all gunna starve.”
One other individual joked: “Go to Hungry Jack’s. The burgers are higher at Hungry Jack’s.”
