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Suspected cyberattack overheats supermarket fridges across Europe

Original: Fridges and freezers at dozens of supermarkets across Europe have overheated in a suspected cyberattack. Supermarkets in

Refrigeration systems at dozens of supermarkets in Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden have overheated in a suspected cyberattack, forcing some stores to throw away chilled and frozen food worth millions of pounds. The incident, which follows a major attack on a supplier, has disrupted food supplies and raised concerns about the vulnerability of supermarket cooling infrastructure to remote hacking.

Why now: Millions of pounds of food waste and store disruptions across multiple countries make this an unusual and costly cyberattack on everyday infrastructure.

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• Fridges and freezers at dozens of supermarkets across Europe have overheated in a suspected cyberattack. Supermarkets in Belgium, Luxembourg and Sweden have reported disruptions, with some forced to throw away chilled and frozen food worth millions of pounds. It follows a major · Channel4News · 413

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