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Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses
French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack
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WorldPingHundreds of Intermarché shops and Coopérative U outlets in France hit, with fears Dutch chains also affected Hackers have forced the temperature of many French supermarket fridges up to 50C overnight, in an “unprecedented” cyber-attack affecting seve…
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by The Guardian
WorldPingHundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
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Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Hacker News
The cyberattack caused refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, sparking fires and forcing spoiled food to be thrown away.
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WorldPingHackers carried out a cyber attack on hundreds of French supermarkets overnight - pushing temperatures in fridges up to 50C and sparking fires.
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