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McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure (www.cnn.com)

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McDonald’s was hit by a system failure Friday that closed restaurants and disrupted online and app orders around the world, including in the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.

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[-] Daqu@lemm.ee 155 points 8 months ago

More than 20 ice cream machines were working at the same time. This caused a buffer overlow that crashed the McDatabase in the McCloud.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 20 points 8 months ago

IT guy went on vacation, left the junior guy in charge.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

McCation

[-] kosanovskiy@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

RIight after there was claims of starting a open-source official fix for the machines.

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