Hackers sabotage 700 French supermarket freezers, destroying thousands of tons of food
Hackers remotely overrode temperature controls on hundreds of French supermarket freezers Sunday night, raising settings from minus 27 degrees Celsius to over 50 degrees and spoiling food across up to 700 stores. The attack, affecting Intermarché, Carrefour, and Leclerc chains, destroyed thousands of tons of inventory. Cybersecurity experts suggest either activist hackers or state-sponsored sabotage by Russia.
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Published 17 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC · Updated 17 Oct 2026, 04:21 UTC
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