McDonald's Restaurants Hit by Global Outage Caused by Tech Provider Error

McDonald's blamed a third-party provider's configuration change, not a cyberattack, for the global outage that forced restaurants to close.

The outage began around midnight on Friday and still impacts some restaurants.

The issues were "quickly identified and corrected" and most markets are back online.

The outage was not directly caused by a cybersecurity event, according to McDonald's CIO.

The outage impacted McDonald's restaurants worldwide, including in the U.S., U.K., Japan, Australia, Canada, and more.