Three weeks after the cyberattack on French supermarkets, Belgian and Swedish distributors in turn announce “computer incidents” affecting their refrigerators
A Swedish store clarified on social networks that the temperature of its refrigerators and freezers had been set to 50 degrees Celsius, following the hacking of refrigeration systems that occurred in France.
Belgian-Dutch retailer Ahold Delhaize announced Monday that a "computer incident" had affected refrigerators and freezers in dozens of its supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg, said group spokesperson Sarah De Meester. Like an incident that affected hundreds of French supermarkets almost three weeks ago, the supermarket chain noticed a rise in temperatures within the refrigeration systems, she said. The company is currently investigating this incident.
Temperatures set at 50 degrees Celsius in Sweden For their part, Swedish retailers ICA and Coop reported similar incidents, with one of the affected stores attributing it to a cyberattack. A Swedish store clarified on social networks that the temperature of its refrigerators and freezers had been set to 50 degrees Celsius, following the hacking of refrigeration systems that occurred in France. “We are aware that a limited number of stores were affected by an incident last night, which affected their refrigeration and freezing systems,” an ICA spokesperson said by email.
The cyberattack affecting hundreds of supermarkets in France led them to throw away tons of food contained in the hacked refrigerators.
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