Grocery stores in Sweden and Belgium have reported rising temperatures in several of their refrigeration systems, suspected to be the outcome of hacks, weeks following a cyberattack on fridges and freezers in France that forced supermarkets to throw distant food.
"Unauthorized actors were capable to admission and tamper alongside the cooling systems at a small fraction of our stores," a spokesman at Swedish supermarket sequence Coop confirmed to Business Insider.
They stated that seven out of its additional than 800 stores were affected overnight and into Monday.
"The circumstance is currently contained and under control," they added.
Gustaf Nilsson, spokesman for ICA Sverige, another Swedish market retailer, stated that an overnight event affected a "small number" of its stores.
"The event affected the stores' refrigeration and freezer systems," Nilsson stated in an emailed statement. "ICA is currently supporting the affected stores in managing the situation."
The director of an ICA shop told local TV position TV4 that its freezers had been set to 50 degrees Celsius, or 122 degrees Fahrenheit, and that personnel could not modify the temperature.
In Belgium, the retailing business Ahold Delhaize stated it was conscious of an "IT event affecting the refrigeration systems in a figure of Delhaize stores."
"Our teams are operating difficult to completely measure the situation," the spokesman stated in an emailed statement. "We volition portion additional data as shortly as we are capable to do so.”
Belgian news outlet RTL reported one Delhaize director had to discard the contents of her fridges and freezers.
The incidents are strikingly akin to a enormous cyberattack affecting refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets final month.
The director of one Intermarché shop in Normandy, France, told Business Insider that its fridges and freezers were remotely turned up to temperatures of up to 122F, resulting in $112,000 value of food being discarded.
No association between that assault and Monday’s disruptions has been established.
This is a evolving story. Come rear for updates.
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