From the «arterial sclerosis of the domain controller» department:
Feed: Technology | The Guardian
Title: McDonald’s hit by ‘technology outage’ in UK, Australia, Japan and China
Author: Dan Milmo, Jordyn Beazley and Amy Hawkins
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:16:24 -0400
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/mcdonalds-outage-australia-restaurants-update-details

Fast food chain working to resolve problem but denies it has been hit by cybersecurity attack

McDonald’s restaurants in multiple countries including the UK and Australia have
been hit by a “technology outage”, which the fast food chain denied had been
caused by a cybersecurity attack.

Australia, the UK, Japan and China were among the markets where services were affected, with restaurant, drive-through and online orders hit.
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Links:
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/mcdonalds-outage-australia-restaurants-update-details (link)

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My bet: their entire operations team was incapacitated by heart attacks
and digestive issues and were unable to keep systems running.
--scott

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kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:ut7eum$72j$1@panix2.panix.com:

My bet: their entire operations team was incapacitated by heart attacks
and digestive issues and were unable to keep systems running.
--scott

Everyone there wouldn't be so dumb as to consume their own food.

The latest comp.risks (Risks) article contains several explanations for the outage.

Why anyone would design such a system to knowingly incapacitate a store's
order system due to a network outage is beyond me. Once built that would be the first or second test a store would go through.
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David

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David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> wrote at 15:41 this Monday (GMT):

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:ut7eum$72j$1@panix2.panix.com:

My bet: their entire operations team was incapacitated by heart attacks
and digestive issues and were unable to keep systems running.
--scott

Everyone there wouldn't be so dumb as to consume their own food.

The latest comp.risks (Risks) article contains several explanations for the outage.

Why anyone would design such a system to knowingly incapacitate a store's order system due to a network outage is beyond me. Once built that would be the first or second test a store would go through.
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David

Maybe for verification purposes?
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On 18/03/24 16:41, David LaRue wrote:

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:ut7eum$72j$1@panix2.panix.com:

My bet: their entire operations team was incapacitated by heart attacks
and digestive issues and were unable to keep systems running.
--scott

Everyone there wouldn't be so dumb as to consume their own food.

The latest comp.risks (Risks) article contains several explanations for the outage.

Why anyone would design such a system to knowingly incapacitate a store's order system due to a network outage is beyond me. Once built that would be the first or second test a store would go through.
--
David

Most systems are now designed with the basic assumption that the
internet is always available - just like they assume that the electrical
grid is always available.

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immibis <news@immibis.com> wrote at 17:11 this Monday (GMT):

On 18/03/24 16:41, David LaRue wrote:

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:ut7eum$72j$1@panix2.panix.com: >>

My bet: their entire operations team was incapacitated by heart attacks
and digestive issues and were unable to keep systems running.
--scott

Everyone there wouldn't be so dumb as to consume their own food.

The latest comp.risks (Risks) article contains several explanations for the >> outage.

Why anyone would design such a system to knowingly incapacitate a store's
order system due to a network outage is beyond me. Once built that would be >> the first or second test a store would go through.
--
David

Most systems are now designed with the basic assumption that the
internet is always available - just like they assume that the electrical
grid is always available.

Yeah, just look at all the "smart" devices exist.
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