Attack spreads to at least seven countries, EU commissioner reacts
2 Nov 2 8:00 AM · 6d ago · 104 articles · 52 posts · 29 comments · 7 sources · development 2 of 6
Retailers in Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden reported refrigeration failures; EU food and agriculture commissioner Christophe Hansen called the attacks a deliberate threat to the food supply chain.
“a deliberate attempt to disrupt our food supply chain and undermine consumers’ confidence in it”
Christophe Hansen, EU food and agriculture commissionerChristophe 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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first by DW.com, 6d ago · also The National UAE, The National, Deutsche Welle EN, CTV News, NBC News, Reuters +5
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- European supermarkets hit by new fridge cyberattack CTV News · 6d ago
- New Wave Of Refrigerator Cyberattacks Roils European Supermarkets: ‘Everything Is Destroyed’ Forbes Business · 6d ago
- Supermarket freezers in 4 European countries hit by apparent cyberattack Global News · 6d ago
- Cyberattack on supermarket fridges across 6 European countries, freezers reach 50°C: ‘Everything destroyed’ | World News Hindustan Times · 6d ago
- Cyberattack on supermarket fridges across 6 European countries, freezers reach 50°C: ‘Everything destroyed’ Hindustan Times · 6d ago
- European retailers hit by supermarket fridge hack Reuters · 5d ago
- New cyberattack on European supermarket freezers Sydney Morning Herald · 5d ago
- Another fridge hack hits on European supermarkets ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation · 5d ago
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first by The Times, 6d ago · also The Independent, The Telegraph, CNBC, Free Press Journal, RuntimeWire, International Business Times +3
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- Cyber hackers 'turn fridges up to 50C' in supermarkets across Europe The Independent · 6d ago
- Hackers shut down supermarket fridges across Europe The Telegraph · 6d ago
- Supermarket fridges hit with cyberattacks across Europe — here's what's happening CNBC · 6d ago
- Fresh Cyberattack Hits Supermarket Freezers Across Europe, Stores Forced To Dump Food Free Press Journal · 6d ago
- Hackers turn up supermarket freezers across Europe and force stores to dump food RuntimeWire · 6d ago
- Supermarkets Across Europe Are Losing Millions as Suspected Cyberattack Spoils Frozen Food Again International Business Times · 6d ago
- Supermarket freezers across Europe struck in second crippling cyberattack — hackers raise temperatures to 50 degrees Celsius in Belgium and Sweden, destroying food stocks Tom's Hardware · 6d ago
- Supermarkets across Europe hit by new fridge cyberattacks NBC News · 6d ago
- Suspected cyberattacks trigger supermarket fridge failures across Europe Mastodon · 6d ago
- Fridges hacked, food spoiled: Cyberattack disrupts supermarkets across Europe Times of India · 6d ago
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9 outlets Cyber Attack Turns Supermarket Freezers Into Ovens In Sweden, Belgium; Food Worth Millions Ruined
first by News18, 6d ago · also BBC, The Sun, FT, HN Best, HN Frontpage, Guardian +2
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- Supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden hit by cyber-attack BBC · 6d ago
- Supermarket fridges across Europe HACKED in chilling new wave of cyber attacks as spy agency warns UK freezers at risk The Sun · 6d ago
- European supermarket fridges hit with suspected cyber attack FoodNavigator.com · 6d ago
- European supermarket freezers hit just weeks after French cyber attack Financial Times · 6d ago
- Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack HN Best · 6d ago
- Supermarket freezers in Belgium, Sweden and Luxembourg hit by suspected cyber-attack BBC Business · 6d ago
- European supermarkets hit by new fridge cyber attack CTV News · 6d ago
- Supermarkets across Europe hit by suspected cyber attack as fridges turned up Independent UK · 6d ago
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first by Neowin, 6d ago · also Security Affairs, NL Times, Euronews, Al Jazeera, Reuters
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- Supermarkets in Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg and Estonia hit by cyberattacks disrupting freezers and fridges Political.org · 6d ago
- New wave of fridge cyberattacks hits European supermarkets, this time in Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden and Estonia Security Affairs · 6d ago
- Cyberattack hits Delhaize supermarket fridges, freezers at dozens of Belgium locations nltimes.nl · 6d ago
- Cyberattack hits Belgian supermarket fridges and freezers Euronews · 6d ago
- Freezers in Sweden, Belgium overheat following possible cyberattacks Al Jazeera · 6d ago
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first by Mastodon, 6d ago · also Seoul Economic Daily, Bloomberg, Politico Europe
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first by France 24 EN, 5d ago
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BREAKING: Europe is under a massive widespread cyber attack right now Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia, Ireland the Netherlands and just now Finland are all experiencing disruptions to supermarket refrigeration systems causing food to go off. The attack is spreading...
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What did I say? You connect appliances to the internet, this is what you get. You should not be able to hack yoghurt. Shop freezers in six European countries hit by suspected cyber-attack https://www. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq1kd1 nee80eo
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I remember covering an event - about 100 years ago - on the Internet of Things, it was going to be the next new thing. Even then I wondered if I would ever want an alert to learn that the milk in my fridge had past its use by date, only to ignore it
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>Or to take the freezers offline if an update isn't available.Why the heck would this be necessary? We have VPNs holy crap, the entire genesis of the technology was to solve this fucking problem. If it's not literally intended for the general random public to be able to randomly visit and use themselves, it shouldn't be exposed on the public…
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There is special hardware for remote iot/ ot stuff too allow secure access. There are many approaches. Where I used to work, we had a requirement for a fully secured VPN before we wanted to make a contract for remote support and hotline. It's of course a little easier to sell something like that, when the complete delivery is in the hundreds of…
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BREAKING: This morning’s cyberattack against supermarket fridges and freezers has now spread to Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg and Estonia. The hackers increased the temperature up to 50C. Food worth millions of euros has been spoiled. Experts warn that such cyberattacks on
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If you have not believed me when I regularly state orgs do not care a whit abt "cyber”, the successful attacks on freezer control units in both Sweden and Belgium should help you adjust to that reality. There were confirmed attacks with real impact in France (that made "real news" headlines), and the "how" was known, but the compan[y|ies] that…
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I'm extrapolating a bit here based on Reddit hearsay, but I think this may have to do with rural stores having essentially consumer-grade internet routers connected to the mobile broadband network.Much of the coverage in Swedish media drives the point that only 4G-uplinked stores have been hit so far. I think that's unfortunate, because really it…
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Cyber security should now be taught in schools along science and literature. A new generation of kids who don't know the different between internet and WiFi aren't going to make it without basic understanding of the world around them. But also let's stop connecting our flippin refrigerators to the internet, mmkay.
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BREAKING: Estonia is now the latest country hit by a cyberattack targeting supermarket refrigeration systems, following incidents reported this morning in Belgium, Sweden, and Luxembourg. Hackers reportedly accessed the control system of a large supermarket chain and remotely
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." — George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905 Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack | https://www. theguardian.com/world/2026/nov /02/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-suspected-cyber-attack
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Back in 1995 this was so improbable it was one of the purported negative effects of the "Good Times" virus which was a parody of the virus warning e-mails that were being forwarded around at the time. Computers still can't give you Dutch elm disease, fortunately.> It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes…
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It's actually funny that a few years ago everything was being made "smart" and "had an app!"unnecessarily. Like smart washing machines and dishwashers and fridges. Now Ai has made hacking more risky we will all suffer the consequences of this.
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Cyberattacks overnight disrupted refrigeration systems at supermarkets in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg, causing extreme temperatures and heavy damage to stored food. Some ICA stores in Sweden had units remotely set to 50°C. In Belgium, units at over 40 Delhaize, 15 Carrefour and around 5 Spar s...
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I am hereby renaming these attacks to the "Not Hot Dog" attacks. Because, why the fuck does a fridge need an IP stack? https:// securityaffairs.com/202260/sec urity/another-fridge-cyberattack-hits-european-supermarkets-this-time-in-belgium-luxembourg-sweden-and-estonia.html
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There was an interview with an angry store manager, he's mad at the attackers, but I didn't hear the media ask him why they didn't improve security after the French attacks. Only now do they appear to want to start a review of their monitoring system.
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It's a thermostat. The freezer has no heating element to actually raise the temperature inside to 50 Celsius. They just told the freezers not to cool unless the temperature exceeds 50 C. The hackers just turned to freezers off.
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🚨🇧🇪🇱🇺🇸🇪 BREAKING: HACKERS TARGET SUPERMARKET FRIDGES ACROSS EUROPE — FOOD DESTROYED! Supermarket refrigerators and freezers in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Sweden were reportedly hacked overnight, with temperatures allegedly manipulated to reach 70°C (158°F), causing massive food spoilage. 💰...
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Good news! Putting smart technology in supermarket freezers meant that your weekly shop was £1.50 cheaper in 2022-3. Bad news! Ripping our smart technology means your weekly shop is going to be £4.50 more expensive in 2028-9! European supermarket freezers ...
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They deserve to get burned and should get a hefty fine as well. I'm fed up with businesses completely ignoring all basic security and then blaming culprits for hacking them.I don't care whether it's the Russians, Chinese, Norks or script kiddies. This should never have happened, especially since a similar incident happened in France three weeks…
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I have responsibility of 11 restaurants. Different typ of fridges. Its basicly rooms and the cooling machines are somewhere else. We can only see the temp in the rooms and get alarms, not adjust the cooling
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There has been a large cyber attack on Swedish supermarket chains which have turned of refrigerators of many stores leading to food rotting a similar cyber attack happened recently in France with sources suspecting Russian involvement.
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Ugh the freezer attack thing seems to have also hit Belgian supermarkets. https:// nltimes.nl/2026/11/02/cyberatt ack-hits-delhaize-supermarket-fridges-freezers-dozens-belgium-locations
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This first happened in France over three weeks ago. It's unforgivable that many chains have failed to update their software in time. Or to take the freezers offline if an update isn't available.I now read some interviews with local chains in Sweden and Finland, and they were still just investigating what to do at this point.
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