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First McDonakds then Sainsburys with their devious 2 for 1 offers 

Is this a cyber attack by the eating hackers ? 

What next, exposing the raw ingredients in KFC, stopping fish fryers remotely from reaching cooking temperature or redirecting takeaway food delivery's to homeless people (actually if hackers are reading this I take credit for the last idea) 

Maybe it's a prelude to an invasion cutting the public off from junk food so we all starve 🤔 

Only conspiracy nuts know the truth 🤣

Hmm, Let's see, started with Meta a few weeks ago, then we had Microsoft, then McDonalds and Now Sainsbury's and Tesco... Probably others I've forgotten about as well.

Somehow I doubt this is a coincidence.  

People say you can go cashless..., but you clearly can't if you want people to be able to pay when technology breaks down, is ddosed or whatever.

Edited by mrwb
On 16/03/2024 at 13:23, Spartacus said:

First McDonakds then Sainsburys with their devious 2 for 1 offers 

Is this a cyber attack by the eating hackers ? 

What next, exposing the raw ingredients in KFC, stopping fish fryers remotely from reaching cooking temperature or redirecting takeaway food delivery's to homeless people (actually if hackers are reading this I take credit for the last idea) 

Maybe it's a prelude to an invasion cutting the public off from junk food so we all starve 🤔 

Only conspiracy nuts know the truth 🤣

I'm right 

Today its Greggs that's down 🫣

It's not hackers.

There are new PCI-DSS regulations coming into force at the end of March - so all retailers are scrambling to have their devices/infrastructure compliant by the deadline.

https://www.scmagazine.com/resource/pci-dss-4-0-things-to-do-by-march-2024

Thanks for that explanation.  Are any of the computing industry papers/journals covering the system admin errors and why they occuurred?

[ETA:] I gather it's a worldwide industry standard rather than a regulation.  See eg:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard.  Assuming the standard amendment is indeed the underlying cause, which I guess is likely, it would be interesting and useful to know whether merchants, retailers, etc in other countries have experienced similar system failures in  incorporating the amendments.

 

Edited by ianr

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