More European supermarkets are getting their freezers hacked

Employees astatine an ICA Kvantum supermarket successful Sjoebo, Sweden unloading spoiled nutrient from the freezer units. | Image: Johan Nilsson / TT News Agency / AFP via Getty Images

Grocery stores crossed Europe person been deed by different question of suspected cyberattacks, reporting abrupt changes successful the temperatures of their fridges and freezers. Major supermarket chains crossed Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, and Estonia were affected according to section reports shared by Bloomberg and Reuters.

One Ica Kvantum store successful Sweden said connected its Facebook page that its fridges and freezers had been hacked overnight, with temperatures remotely raised to 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). In a connection to Business Insider, a spokesperson astatine Swedish supermarket concatenation Coop besides confirmed that "unauthorized actors were capable to entree and …

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