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<\/p>\nMillions of euros’ worth of food was spoiled in France after a cyber attack caused supermarket fridges and freezers to heat up. <\/p>\n
According to France 24, hackers took control of the software that regulates refrigeration unit temperatures at hundreds of supermarkets from Sunday to Monday. <\/p>\n
Some warmed up to 50C in what the Paris prosecutor’s office called a “large-scale” attack.<\/p>\n
Dominique Schelcher, chief executive of the Coop\u00e9rative U chain, which had 100 stores hit, said the attack was “unprecedented”. <\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
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Some retailers were forced to throw out products. (Source: Reuters)<\/p>\n
Intermarch\u00e9, another of France’s major supermarket chains, reported that up to 200 stores had been affected. <\/p>\n
Some retailers were forced to throw out all fresh or frozen products. <\/p>\n
French broadcaster BFMTV reported that two supermarkets in the Alsace region experienced losses of \u20ac270,000 (NZ$539,000). <\/p>\n
The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that it had lauched an investigation into the hack. <\/p>\n
It wanted to “identify the victims and establish the link with the damage they reported in terms of foodstuff losses and the outbreak of fires”. <\/p>\n
European Food Commissioner Christophe Hansen condemned the attack. <\/p>\n
“Food security requires more attention at all levels. Because the weaponisation of food has become a reality.”<\/p>\n
The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including why Auckland Transport might owe you money, and how a cyber attack shut down hundreds of supermarket fridges. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of euros’ worth of food was spoiled in France after a cyber attack caused supermarket fridges and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,67,111,139,69,1745],"class_list":["post-628795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}