Supermarket and grocery store refrigerator controls across Europe were hacked in the early hours of Monday in the second such wave of attacks in recent weeks — following a first wave in France — with unidentified perpetrators defrosting fridges and causing stock to spoil.
British businesses caught in Europe-wide supermarket fridge attacks
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