The Pentagon is investigating if rogue freezers are tied to cyberattacks in France. Another wave of hacks is hitting supermarkets across Europe
Source: Fortune ·
Last month, hundreds of French grocery store freezers were hacked. In August, half a dozen U.S. military commissaries experienced similar outages.
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Lightning may not strike the same place twice, but hackers appear to be targeting the same systems, as refrigeration becomes the next frontier for cyberattacks. About 20 refrigerator systems in supermarkets Delhaize, Carrefour and Spar experienced outages late Sunday night into Monday morning, Stephan Moelans, CEO of refrigeration installer Sabcobel, told Belgium’s Belga News Agency on Monday. Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet reported similar outages in Swedish chains ICA and Coop, with outages also reported in Luxembourg and Estonia. “We began mobilizing technicians at 1 a.m. to get the situation under control,” Moelans said. “We’ve been working all night and morning to disconnect the affected units from the network.” He noted this wave of suspected cyberattacks mirrored the hacking of hundreds of French supermarkets last month, when the temperature of grocery stores’ refrigerators and freezers was raised, spoiling food and causing small fires. Those supermarkets included 80…
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