Confirmed victim list grows to ten countries, two more suspected
4 Nov 3 2:13 AM · 5d ago · 18 articles · 5 videos · 15 posts · 10 comments · 7 sources · development 4 of 6
Researcher Lukasz Olejnik listed confirmed fridge-hack victims in Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Estonia, the Netherlands, Finland, Portugal, Germany and Italy, with Poland and Romania suspected, alongside extensive confirmed losses of refrigerated food.
“Confirmed fridge cyberattack victims in Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Estonia, Netherlands, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Italy. Suspected in Poland and Romania. Extensive losses of refrigerated food are confirmed”
Lukasz OlejnikChristophe 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 The Hindu, 5d ago · also SecurityWeek, CNBC, Channel News Asia, Courthouse News, Dawn, Yahoo +2
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- Over 100 European Stores Hit as Supermarket Fridge Attacks Return SecurityWeek · 5d ago
- Supermarket fridges hit with cyberattacks across Europe CNBC · 5d ago
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Confirmed fridge cyberattack victims in Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Estonia, Netherlands, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Italy. Suspected in Poland and Romania. Extensive losses of refrigerated food are confirmed
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This is a total failure by the vendors of these freezers.If you charge money for something that is critical national infrastructure - and the food delivery pipeline is absolutely CNI - and you connect it to the Internet, you should also be responsible for keeping it secure - or at the very minimum at least trying to do so.The same goes for other…
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FFS, if you can hack multiple facilities across multiple countries why make food more expensive ? You could be getting Putin's copy of Trump's peepee tape. You could be diverting crypto like Best Korea. You could be scrambling the nuclear codes. Why attack food? The grocers aren't going to lower prices, they just lost inventory. They are going to…
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Supermarkets in seven (!) countries in Europe were hit by this attack. Must be tons of frozen foods which have been turned into inedible rubbish by this attack. Shame on these cyber attackers! 👇
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This is why certain things should never be connected to the internet: “Supermarket chains in at least seven European countries have said the temperatures of refrigerators and freezers in some of their shops soared overnight to as high as 50C (122F), echoing a cyber-attack last month that caused millions of euros of damage in France.” # Cyberattack…
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Almost everything you described is either better set at factory (or at coolant recharge - like compressor pressure, etc), or tunable on the antique mercury switch thermostat we had growing up.The only remaining thing is the defrost cycle stuff, and even that can be 90% of the way to optimal just by having a clock that knows when peak power is. The…
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The issue is not putting the tech into these appliances. The issue is connecting it to the internet. An internal network would be enough for monitoring purposes.
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Supermarkets in nine European countries reported refrigeration failures after a suspected cyberattack, raising concerns over food waste and the security of Europe's food supply chain. https:// english.mathrubhumi.com/news/w orld/cyberattack-supermarkets-nine-european-countries-refrigeration-pqtjppxh?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #…
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I don’t doubt the technical details but on the economics: surely saving a small amount of money per store is still a small amount of money per thousand stores? If each store costs $500k per year in staff, maintenance, and power then the savings from having fancy refrigeration units mean I can run one more store on top of the 1,000 I already have…
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Are we going to find out that this is in fact Claude/OpenAI/Gemini/Muse attacking, thinking they would be getting extra cooling?
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From AP: Supermarket freezers in Sweden hit by apparent cyberattacks https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=IKn9vAkJ4f s&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon * VSN-GDPM c1996 # news # SupportIndependentMedia # vsn
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It would still be miles better to add something to do on the hardware side. For example: every time a new firmware or setting is pushed, a physical employee has to go press a button (or turn a key) to make it apply.It would be a more sensible tradeoff bo matter the scale of the store, thab jeopardizing the entire fresh supply of a nation.
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Hardware sensors collect data that are centralized by third parties for monitoring purposes
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This was predictable from the moment the anagram IOT was made to exist https://www. lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/ 2026/11/02/new-fridge-cyberattack-hits-belgian-and-swedish-supermarkets_6769445_19.html
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I think there can be a compromise. A range of acceptable of operating values is chosen, and remote control is allowed within that range. But dangerous values like turning the freezer off or setting it to defrost should require more ceremony.
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"in this case hackers linked to Russia and China are also likely to be in the frame" https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/nov/02/europe-supermarket-fridges-freezers-who-hacking-why
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Why not a physical switch you have to press to enable defrost mode?Then at least the hacker couldn't just switch off 1000 freezers that are full of food at once.
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British supermarkets on high alert as freezers across Europe hit by suspected cyber attack https://www. lbc.co.uk/article/supermarket- freezers-europe-suspected-cyber-attack-5HjdkmQ_2/
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Europe's fridges are getting hacked. https://www. axios.com/2026/11/02/europe-su permarket-fridges-attacks-food
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