New Cyberattack Targeting Refrigerators Affects More than 10 Countries
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The alleged attack on supermarket refrigerators and freezers revealed the vulnerability of the food supply chain.
No one claimed for the time being these attacks, which forced large quantities of products to be discarded and which the European Union considers to be a deliberate attempt to disrupt its food supply. A first hack in mid-October led to a drastic rise in temperatures in refrigerators and freezers in hundreds of French establishments. Similar incidents took place this Monday in Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands…
From 1 to 2 November refrigerators from supermarkets in several European countries were remotely manipulated, just as they did in France in October.
Cyberattacks have disrupted the refrigeration systems of more than a hundred European stores. In some freezers, the set temperature rose to 50 degrees, ruining a lot of food.
European supermarkets encountered an unusual cyber attack.
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