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Hackers heat supermarket fridges to 50C in France cyberattack
Original: cyberattack
Hackers have carried out a cyberattack on supermarkets in France, remotely raising the temperature of refrigeration units to 50 degrees Celsius and potentially spoiling large quantities of chilled food. The incident highlights growing concerns that critical retail infrastructure, including refrigeration and building systems, can be targeted and disrupted by attackers, with security outlets drawing attention to the physical consequences of such intrusions.
Why now: The unusual physical impact of the attack on everyday food supplies has drawn fresh attention to vulnerabilities in retail infrastructure.
HackreadFrancesupermarket refrigeration systems
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Evidence
- 'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident · Tom's Hardware
- French Supermarket Refrigeration Sites Hit by Cyberattacks · Bloomberg.com
- Refrigerators go haywire in French supermarkets due to cyberattack · RetailDetail EU
- Hackers Heat Supermarket Fridges to 50°C in France Cyberattack · Hackread
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