Todays Sainsbury's IT glitch

[jazzer]

Do Sainsbury accept iou's??????????????????

 

https://twitter.com/search?q=Sainsbury&src=trend_click&vertical=trends

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Edited March 16 by jazzer

[GooseGreenGoods]

to clarify it's CASH ONLY at DKH right now & the ATM is out of order too.

Went to Morrisons instead - no issues there.

[Spartacus]

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 🤣

[mrwb]

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 March 16 by mrwb

[kbabes]

Definitely the Russians ..  !

[teddyboy23]

😉Always carry a grand in cash for moments like this 

Edited March 16 by teddyboy23

[Spartacus]

1 hour ago, teddyboy23 said:

😉Always carry a grand in cash for moments like this 

Or £50 grand just in case you get the urge to impulse buy a car 🤣

[Spartacus]

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 🫣

[mrwb]

Don't they take cash ?

[vladi]

Just imagine if these these alleged hackers got access the biggest secret in the world of food and beverages ie the recipe for Coca Cola.

[evilmanic]

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

[ianr]

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 March 24 by ianr

[JohnL]

There's a hint on what happened here but see nothing else
https://www.cio.com/article/2069427/payment-processing-outages-at-uk-retailers-raise-reliability-issues-for-cashless-transactions.html