Cyberattack hits French blood bank site but no blood products were compromised
Staff detected the temperature spike in time, and no blood products were lost, officials said, as investigators probe the supplier breach.
- On Monday, the French Blood Establishment reported a cyberattack where hackers remotely reprogrammed refrigeration units to reach 110°C; an on-duty technician detected the temperature spike overnight and averted damage.
- France's national cybersecurity agency, CERT-FR, issued a security alert on October 12, 2026, reporting compromises involving Danfoss AK-SM and AK-SC controllers and warning against exposing management interfaces to the internet.
- Hackers breached systems maintained by Coolworld, a contractor servicing EFS storage containers normally kept at −30°C, with the attack also affecting Copeland and Dixell XWEB refrigeration management equipment.
- France's Health Ministry confirmed the breach caused zero operational disruption to blood transfusions, yet the incident has raised broader concerns about security of systems connected to critical healthcare infrastructure.
- Affected facilities in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region have drawn attention to earlier CERT-FR warnings about exposing refrigeration management interfaces, prompting renewed focus on securing critical healthcare infrastructure.
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Several regional sites of the French Blood Institute were hit by a cyberattack on November 2. The attack affected monitoring and management systems for cold storage rooms but did not damage stored blood products, the French health ministry said. “Several regional sites of the French Blood Institute were hit by a cybersecurity incident that affected certain monitoring and management systems for cold storage rooms,” the statement said. The tempera…
Cybercriminals haven't even spared blood banks. A blood bank in France was cyber-attacked. Prior to this, freezers have been regularly attacked.
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France has once again been the victim of a cyber attack, but this time the objective of the offensive has raised the alarms of the authorities. Several regional centers of the public agency that manages blood donations in the country suffered the 'hacking' of their cooling systems. Continue reading...
French blood banks foil new cyberattack targeting refrigerators
A cyberattack in France targeted three cold stores containing donated blood samples and plasma, authorities said on Wednesday. The incident – which was unsuccessful due to the facilities' alarm systems – is the latest in a series of suspected attacks that have targeted refrigerators in European supermarkets, as well as French cooperative bank, Credit Mutuel Arkea, which was also affected Wednesday.
The cyberattack was thwarted before it could cause any damage to blood products or samples.
Cybertaque affected cold chambers of three centers of the French Blood Institute. Authorities say there was no loss of blood products or health risks. Investigation was opened.
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