Hackers raised the temperature of freezers in several European supermarkets to 50°C
A cyberattack on European supermarket refrigeration systems spread across the continent on Monday, affecting stores in Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The incident disrupted cooling systems, raised freezer temperatures to 50 degrees, and damaged food in multiple countries, with reports from France, Belgium, and Sweden confirming the scale of the disruption.
- Several European food distribution chains were affected by new cyberattacks on their refrigeration systems.
- Carrefour Belgium reported an incident affecting fifteen stores on Monday morning.
- Hackers manipulated temperature controls at over 350 locations in France earlier this month.
- The temperature in the affected freezers reached about 15 degrees.
- Delhaize experienced cooling system malfunctions in over 40 supermarkets in Belgium due to an IT error.
- A cyberattack in France on October 12 affected at least 300 Intermarché/Netto stores.
- Coop in Sweden reported unidentified hackers manipulated refrigerators and freezers in seven of its approximately 800 stores.
- The European Commissioner Christophe Hansen condemned repeated cyberattacks as extremely worrying.
- The attack methods match similar incidents in France and the Netherlands last month.
- The attack destroyed food worth millions of euros.
- Danfoss confirmed that reported incidents in multiple European countries involved its products.
- A Delhaize store in Hoeilaart lost products valued at 100,000 euros.
- Engla Ingwall said all freezers in an ICA franchise store reached 50 degrees Celsius.
- Dozens of Belgian grocery stores and an Ikea superstore experienced soaring refrigerator temperatures on Monday.
- Sabcobel said around 10 percent of its installations were not fixed after the October 12 attack in France.
- Forescout found that 80 percent of Danfoss services used firmware older than the version fixing known security flaws.
- Most supermarket refrigerated sections are connected to the internet for remote maintenance and failure alerts.
- Six stores from the same commercial chain in Romania were potentially targeted by a cyberattack.
- Forescout identified 12,976 exposed refrigeration management services across 6,017 internet addresses in 99 countries and territories.
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