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Dozens of supermarkets in Belgium and Sweden have been hit by a suspected cyber-attack affecting its refrigerators and freezers.
Around 40 Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected, during multiple ICA and Coop shops in Sweden were hit. Thirteen SuperValu shops have additionally been affected in Ireland.
Millions of euros value of food has had to be thrown away, according to local media reports, alongside one ICA shop in Sweden saying temperatures for its freezers had been set to 50 C (122F).
Both Belgium and Sweden's national cyber-security agencies stated they were monitoring the incident.
Delhaize, one of Belgium's biggest supermarket chains, told Belgian media a "computer incident" had occurred overnight at 40 shops.
A Delhaize branch in Hoeilaart, in the Flemish Braband province in Flanders, told Het Laatste Nieuws it had misplaced €100,000 value of produce.
The director stated that evaluation did not equal obtain into document additional losses that would outcome from decision the shop.
Carrefour, a French-owned supermarket, stated the event had lone affected 15 of its Belgian stores, adding that measures had been taken immediately to justify all shops remained open.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for ICA in Sweden confirmed the event had affected a "small figure of ICA stores functioning exterior ICA's chief network".
"ICA is currently supporting the affected stores in managing the situation," they said.
One of the IVA branches located in Sjöbo, southernmost Sweden, wrote on social media: "Our refrigerators and freezers have been hacked overnight and they have set the heat to 50 degrees."
The shop was closed before but has now reopened to customers.
An employee at a branch in Odengatan in the chief Stockholm was pictured throwing distant bags of spoiled food away.
Seven out of the 800 Coop stores in Sweden are additionally affected but the "situation is currently contained and under control", the business told the BBC.
