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Posted on 11/02/2026 7:44:59 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Just weeks after an 'unprecedented' cyberattack struck supermarket fridges in France, destroying foodstuffs, a similar hack has crippled supermarket chains in Belgium and Sweden, Bloomberg reports. Hackers targeted supermarkets owned by Dutch outfit Ahold Delhaize, as well as ICA and Coop locations in Sweden. As with the previous attack, hackers remotely raised temperatures in these online-controlled freezers to 50 degrees Celsius, rapidly defrosting their contents and likely destroying millions of dollars worth of items.
Belga News Agency reports that a cyberattack targeting refrigeration units at Belgian supermarkets started on Sunday night at around midnight. Sabcobel, a refrigeration fitter in the region, estimates that at least twenty units are affected across Belgium. The report says that affected supermarket chains include Delhaize, Carrefour, and Spar. As mentioned, and reflecting the previous attack, hackers remotely activated the freezer's built-in defrost mode, overriding the temperature and time spent defrosting, the exact same method as the France attack.
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Don’t connect the freezer to the internet, problem solved.
And so it begins. I hope those folk who are going all in on connected appliances, light bulbs and everything else are paying attention.
I’ve always wondered what the point of connecting our appliances to the internet was. Maybe they had a plan from the beginning.
um... maybe dont have your freezers connected to the internet?
LMAO
I bet the law requires it, so the gov’t/power company can limit power during peak usage.
My freezer can’t go to 50 C with or without the internet. If I shut it off, it’ll slowly wander up to room temp.
Ahh yes, the joys of complete central management.
These children, is why we don’t want government, corporations and the internet in control of everything. Not everything has to be under a centralized control system, nor should it.
Good thing these were not voting machines.
It’s one thing to lose a package of, say, ‘Bacon’ or a sausage or three...
Europe has refrigeration now?
I could understand thermometers being connected to a remote monitoring system, to measure variation or alert for failure
But allowing remote operational control? What’s the point? Its just stupid
Why would a freezer be able to get to 50 degrees Celsius in the first place?
” I hope those folk who are going all in on connected appliances, light bulbs and everything else are paying attention.”
Yes, indeed. All those “ain’t it cool?” folks are just lying in wait, so to speak.
“We’ve been working all night and morning to disconnect the affected units from the network”
??? Who would have thought disconnecting something would be so hard?
I see benefits to this, it is highly publicized, very much in front of the consumer and the local retailers, and something that the public experiences first hand as loss and inconvenience, and very importantly, as a threat that is real and can affect them.
A really good wake up call and prod to action while the consequences are absorbable and non-society wide/life threatening, hospitals, utilities, banks, homeowners, everyone prepare for the future threats.
“...hackers remotely raised temperatures in these online-controlled freezers to 50 degrees Celsius...”
live by the Internet, die by the Internet ...
“Don’t connect the freezer to the internet, problem solved.”
just because you can doesn’t mean you should ...
50C is equal to 122F. (That’s a moderately warm Summer day here in Vegas) LOL.
You would think there would be some kind of back-up power system in place that would automatically come on if the power from the I-net fails.
Zactly. I'm wondering why they don't have temp alarms.
Then they could shut down their router before the food spoils.
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