Supermarkets across Europe face fresh cybersecurity scare after freezer temperature spikes
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- ✓Supermarkets across Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg reported overnight temperature spikes in refrigeration systems, raising fears of a wider cyberattack.
- ✓These incidents follow similar attacks in France and the Netherlands.
- ✓Retailers now worry that hackers remotely manipulated internet-connected cooling units, potentially causing significant losses of fresh meat and frozen food.
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Supermarkets across Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg report overnight temperature spikes in refrigeration systems, raising fears of a wider cyberattack following similar incidents in France and the Netherlands.
Supermarket chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg have reported sudden increases in the temperatures of their refrigerators and freezers across dozens of stores overnight. In the aftermath of similar incidents being linked to a cyberattack in France, the sudden temperature increases have prompted fears that the systems may have been manipulated remotely.
Sweden's food retailer ICA told the daily Aftonbladet on Monday that six of its stores had been affected. ICA later clarified that it was "aware of a limited number of stores" affected by the overnight incident, which impacted their refrigeration and freezer systems.
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