French Supermarket Cyberattack: Exposed OT Behind France’s Food Supply Supermarkets across France opened on Monday, October 12, to warm freezers and spoiled stock. Overnight, attackers had taken control of refrigeration controllers in hundreds of stores and forced them into defrost, heating equipment to as high as 50°C. Prosecutors confirmed fires, retailers estimated losses in the tens of millions of euros, and Coopérative U’s chief executive called the attack unprecedented.
French Supermarket Cyberattack: Exposed OT Behind France’s Food Supply
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