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Hackers Overheat French Supermarket Fridges

Hackers forced the temperature of French supermarket refrigerators up to fifty degrees Celsius overnight. The cyberattack sparked fires and caused significant food losses at hundreds of stores.

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An employee pushes a caddy as she collects groceries for a click and collect unit at an Intermarche supermarket in Lanton, Southwestern France, August 30, 2013. France has moved fastest to capitalise on the click and collect trend with 20 percent of the population already using drive-thru collection for groceries ordered online. Picture taken August 30, 2013. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau (FRANCE - Tags

Hackers forced supermarket refrigerators up to 50 degrees Celsius overnight in France, triggering fires and total food losses across several hundred stores. The cyberattack struck connected cooling units at multiple major food retailers in a coordinated operation. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu ordered the national cybersecurity agency ANSSI to launch an immediate investigation into the breach.
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