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Cyberattack disrupts European supermarket fridges
Hackers force European supermarkets to defrost fridges at 50C, disrupting prices and deliveries.
In brief
Hackers force European supermarkets to defrost fridges at 50C, disrupting prices and deliveries. Cyberattack activates continuous defrosting at 50 degrees Celsius in European supermarket fridges, causing delivery and pricing disruptions. Originally reported by Tom's Hardware.
Cyberattack hits european supermarkets
Hackers reportedly target major european supermarket chains with refrigeration control systems.
Fridges set to 50c continuous defrost
Units configured to continuously defrost at 50 degrees celsius instead of normal two-hour cycles.
Price and delivery disruptions
Electronic shelf labels and delivery systems affected by the cyberattack.
Cooperative U confirms impact
Cooperative U president says refrigeration facilities affected since last night with teams mobilized to fix.
“A cyberattack has been affecting the refrigeration production facilities of several stores in our network since last night”
Financial losses reported
Losses approaching 300,000 euros with potential nationwide impact of several million euros.
Multiple chains impacted
Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall & Gall in netherlands report website outages and pricing disruptions.
Here's the gist
Cyberattack activates continuous defrosting at 50 degrees Celsius in European supermarket fridges, causing delivery and pricing disruptions.
