Panera Bread hit by week-long IT outage
A ransomware attack took down Panera's online ordering, tills, phones and internal systems across the US for about a week, leaving some stores cash-only.
- Service
- Panera Bread
- Date
- 23 March 2024
- Cause
- Cyberattack
- Duration
- 168 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BleepingComputer ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Panera Bread hit by week-long IT outage”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 23 Mar 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-03-23-panera-bread-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BleepingComputer, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/panera-bread-week-long-it-outage-caused-by-ransomware-attack/.
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