McDonald's tills fail worldwide after third-party change
A configuration change by a third-party provider took down McDonald's point-of-sale systems in Japan, Australia, the UK and elsewhere, closing some restaurants for hours.
- Service
- McDonald's
- Date
- 15 March 2024
- Cause
- Configuration change
- Duration
- 12 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Fox 9 ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “McDonald's tills fail worldwide after third-party change”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 15 Mar 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-03-15-mcdonald-s-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Fox 9, https://fox9.com/news/mcdonalds-outage-reported-worldwide-march-15-2024.
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