Belgian and Swedish operators scramble to contain damage
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Sabcobel, which runs Delhaize's refrigeration systems in Belgium, said it mobilized technicians overnight to disconnect affected units; Sweden's cybersecurity centre said many exposed operational technology devices needed patching.
“We started mobilising technicians at 1am”
Stephan Moelans, CEO of SabcobelChristophe Hansen EU food and agriculture commissionerJohn Billow Head of Sweden's national cybersecurity centreStephan Moelans CEO of Sabcobel, operator of Delhaize's refrigeration systemsICA / Coop Swedish supermarket chainsAhold Delhaize Dutch retailer, parent of Belgian/Luxembourg stores hit
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BREAKING: Europe is under a massive cyber attack, with supermarket fridges and freezers in Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia all hacked today by raising temperatures to up to 50°C, destroying huge quantities of food, per Reuters.
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Okay, so when the first group of European supermarkets lost all of their cold and frozen foods due to IoT hacking, the other European supermarkets disconnected their freezers from the internet, right? Right?
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The Great Remote Unthawing of 2026 continues. Sadly, it's hardly a "cyberattack" because most of these freezers are directly exposed online, with what amounts to a single Cheeto of security (a.k.a. default passwords).
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As I mentioned in the thread regarding the previous attacks, I worked in a closely related field back in 2008-2009.One thing I see repeatedly brought up here in this discussion is "Why can't we just set the refrigerator temperature with a knob and walk away?"The problem is that these refrigerator cases are not as simple as your refrigerator at…
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This is not an IoT issue. At least if the attack is similar to what happened in France. The fridge themselves are dumb machines without any network capabilities. But they're managed through a controller and electric wiring. A lot of store outsource that management, they often don't even own the fridges. So the controller has to be accessed over…
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The temperature of freezers at several Swedish grocery stores rose sharply overnight, operators ICA and Coop said, with at least one store blaming the incident on a cyberattack
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why in the fuck do you have the ability to remotely set a freezer to a temperature not suitable for storing food. if you're going to have some kind of defrost bypass, you're going to need some asshole physically in front of the thing to maintain it anyway so why in the everliving fuck would you even design your product for this situation to be…
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Again! Having your appliances connected to the internet is just opening the door for foreign agents to fuck you up! Take your chose, who are the hackers paid by: Israel, Russian, USA, China, India, N Korea ? The list of baddies is getting longer.
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Also hit a few smaller business in The Netherlands: https://nltimes.nl/2026/11/02/fridges-freezers-17-dutch-busi...With the following interesting quote from the supplier of the system:After that attack, Danfoss advised its Dutch clients on October 13 to disconnect their systems from the internet and ensure they only reconnect via a secure network…
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Cars have been implementing stricter and stricter cybersec stuff for 1 or 2 decades now, because they can kill you. These fridges however can't and nobody expected something like this to happen because there's no benefit to be made from this. It's just a prank basically. You'd have to make a lot of effort to hack into a modern car and most likely…
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In dozens of supermarkets across several European countries, a huge amount of food has been dumped after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack. Read more:
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This is the second wave of cyberattacks to hit supermarket refrigerators in a month, spoiling food and disrupting supplies. https:// techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/a-fr esh-wave-of-cyberattacks-has-hit-europes-supermarket-refrigerators-destroying-food-across-countries/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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This is one of those "it's all so complicated" answers that ignores the fact that for most of the past century they managed to do this without the thing that you're claiming is now necessary.And the real answer comes out eventually: it's necessary now because we consolidated and cut costs and jobs. The people left who we pay next to nothing could…
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Exactly, hack proof monitoring them read-only is absolutely doable. (I guess people then could still hack the monitoring system, but that does no harm to the food.) It's just that it's cheaper (man hour and so cost wise) to also make them remotely adjustable. That is, until they get hacked, then it's very much more expensive.
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European supermarket fridges are under cyberattack once again, with stores across a vast swathe of the continent from Sweden to Belgium hit by a hack that turned up their temperatures, echoing an incident in France just last month
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"similar to hack of French stores" Another cracking month of Infosec awareness ahead of us then... https://www. theguardian.com/world/2026/nov /02/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-suspected-cyber-attack # Infosec # Retail # EUPol
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> The problem is that these refrigerator cases are not as simple as your refrigerator at home. As a simple example, many systems allow you have control over the deadband: the exact low temperature at which the compressor turns off and the high temperature at which the compressor turns back on. You also have control over defrost cycles, compressor…
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Yeah all this time I don't get why does the software allow you to set the temperature, I could see an argument for an alert system if a freezer fails that monitors the temperature, but why do you need the ability to change the temperature remotely.
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🇸🇪 Supermarket freezers in Sweden suddenly heated up over the weekend, and one store says they hit 50°C The store thinks it was hacked, and Sweden isn't alone: around 40 stores in Belgium had the same problem at about the same time, and roughly 700 stores in France were hit back
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Chains in seven countries say cooling unit temperatures rose overnight in incident similar to hack of French shops https://www. theguardian.com/world/2026/nov /02/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-suspected-cyber-attack
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I don't think people question remote accessibility as much as they question why remote accessibility is a matter of guessing the standard password.You can have remote access through secure means. You might even have a web page open to the public if you secure some kind of safe login mechanism.If your story is true, then these stores and chains…
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These things need to be connected to internet. The purpose is to allow remote monitoring. The issue is things like this should be locked down to only allow access on specific ports, and from specific IPs.
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So glad my fridge freezer can't talk to anything. Apart from standard IT kit that I expect to have WiFi, IE my phone and tablet, I removed my smart devices. It did make life easier to be able to tell my lights to dim or turn off from bed but it wasn't worth the hassle of them failing too fast, and having to set up new ones. The smart plug didn't…
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Reminds of the AC at a large multinational Indian company I used to work for - the only way to adjust the temperature or airflow was by calling a service desk operated from, you guessed it, India. Bit of a nuisance when it's -10 degrees outside, while the support people are working in excess of 30; they just didn't understand why anyone would want…
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