Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses
Investigators are examining vulnerabilities in Danfoss equipment as retailers report spoiled food and fires, with some chains saying hundreds of stores were hit.
- French and Dutch authorities are investigating a cyberattack that compromised refrigeration systems in hundreds of stores across France, with officials warning on Tuesday that the breach may still be ongoing.
- Attackers exploited software vulnerabilities in older Danfoss and Copeland refrigeration controllers that lacked security updates, leaving systems directly accessible via the public internet.
- Temperatures in affected freezers spiked to 50 degrees Celsius for six hours, forcing stores to discard inventory; The Intermarch supermarket chain reported losses of "tens of millions of euros" in a single day.
- The French Cybersecurity Agency urged stores to reconnect refrigerators only through secure VPN connections or protected networks, while Europol coordinated with national authorities investigating the incidents.
- Pieter Zwaan, a researcher at the Clingendael Institute, recommends that Dutch households maintain eight-day food reserves to mitigate the risk of prolonged supply chain disruptions.
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<p>Hackers attacked hundreds of supermarkets in Europe: refrigerators heated to 50 degrees A cyberattack in France heated supermarket refrigerators to 50 degrees and spoiled food. In the Netherlands, warehouses and supply.</p>
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