A cyberattack, affecting at least 400 French supermarkets overnight, raised refrigerator temperatures to more than 122°F (50°C) in some cases, forcing millions of dollars’ worth of food to be discarded Monday.
“The weaponization of food has become a reality,” the EU commissioner for agriculture said. The scale of the hack demonstrated “a certain level of sophistication,” a cybersecurity consultant told AFP.
The Élysée has recently called to harden France’s digital infrastructure amid rising security breaches. Monday’s attack may have been continental — a Dutch supermarket chain operating in several countries reported network outages at distribution centers Monday, with one source telling Dutch broadcaster RTL, “You’re going to see huge gaps on the shelves in the coming days.”
Well, here we go! Maybe being able to monitor and control temps offsite wasn’t the best of ideas.
UPI has a fuller story here.
Agreed this seems to be less about the ‘weaponisation of food’ than the stupidity of fridges/fridge operators.
Whoever let a modem become “essential to the preservation of fresh products”, they need to be sacked.
Some things should not be “smart” technology.