Starbucks' payment system is currently experiencing outages across the US and Canada, and the coffee giant is giving away free drinks at locations affected by the outage.
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Starbucks is giving away free coffee after its payment system crashed (SBUX)
Starbucks payment system is experiencing outages across the US, and the coffee giant is giving away free drinks at locations affected by the outage.
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Twitter was flooded Tuesday morning with people reporting that their local Starbucks' payment systems were down, CNBC first reported. Due to the outage, registers were unable to process payments.
Many customers are celebrating the news. Instead of turning people away, Starbucks locations have been giving out free drinks.
A Starbucks spokesperson told Business Insider that the outage is due to a tech update that was installed overnight at certain stores in the US and Canada.
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This isn't the first time in recent months that Starbucks has struggled with its payments technology.
BuzzFeed and Fortune have reported on concerns about the security of the chain's app, which lacks two-factor authentication — a standard security feature that has become the norm for payments systems. BuzzFeed's Venessa Wong reported in early May that someone hacked her app and stole $100 from her account.
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