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French supermarket cyberattack October 2026
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FIRST ENTRY OCT 13
OCT 13 · Day 1
Cyberattack hits French supermarkets causing fires and food losses
A cyberattack on refrigeration systems at supermarkets in France raised fridge and freezer temperatures to as high as 50 degrees Celsius.
Felix Aime, a senior cyberthreat intelligence analyst at Sekoia, told Reuters that Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany and Belgium had also been affected.
ANSSI identified a vulnerability in software supplied by Danish company Danfoss.
“Targeting equipment essential to the preservation of fresh products and to the food supply of the French people is extremely serious and is unprecedented. It is unacceptable,”
DOMINIQUE SCHELCHER
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