2026 French supermarket refrigerator hack
On 11 October 2026, an as yet unknown party hacked into the refrigeration controllers at up to 700 French supermarkets and set them to defrost mode overnight, causing their refrigerators to overheat. The cold chain disruption forced supermarkets to discard vast stocks of spoiled goods, resulting in losses estimated to total tens of millions of euros. The refrigeration controllers by Danfoss each ran a web server reachable over the public internet, many of them accessible using login credentials 'admin' as the username and the current date as the password. On 2 November 2026, a similar cyberattack on refrigeration and freezer systems hit supermarkets across Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden, Estonia, Ireland, Portugal, Poland, Spain and Germany. Three blood banks of the national French Blood Establishment (EFS) were attacked, but this was thwarted before blood plasma could be damaged. Their refrigeration was supplied by Coolworld, who blamed the vulnerability on "a component supplied...
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