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Hackers remotely defrost food in supermarket fridges across Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Sweden
Supermarket chains in Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Sweden report cyberattacks that remotely set refrigeration units to defrost mode, with temperatures reaching up to 50oC and forcing large food write-offs. Around 40 Delhaize stores in Belgium were hit, along with Carrefour, Intermarché, Spar, ICA, Coop and SuperValue sites. The attacks follow a mid-October wave in France, where some stores were running outdated firmware on Danfoss refrigeration controllers, but it is unclear whether the same method was used.
Supermarket fridges across Europe hit by second suspected cyberattack
Chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg report that refrigeration and freezer temperatures rose overnight across dozens of stores, which is suspected to be a cyberattack. In Belgium, Belga reports that attackers remotely switched the units' evaporators to defrost mode, and the incident follows a French attack three weeks earlier that caused millions of euros of food losses.