Ahold Delhaize and Kolreuyt say an IT-related incident damaged fridges and freezers overnight in dozens of stores in Belgium and Luxembourg. Stores associated with the companies "Ahad" and "Cooper" in Sweden also report an increase in the temperature of the refrigerators, and one of the stores attributed the matter to a cyber attack, according to Reuters. This is after a cyber attack that took place in France during the month of October, and the police then reported that electronic hackers had taken over the refrigeration units in many large stores, causing temperatures to rise to what sometimes reached 50 degrees Celsius and leading to fires and loss of food products. The spokeswoman for the "Dalhayza" supermarket chain said that the chain noticed an increase in temperatures in the cooling systems on Monday, and notes that an investigation is underway by the company. For his part, Stéphane Mullens, CEO of the Belgian "Sevacobel" company specializing in refrigeration systems, which operates the "Dalhaize" systems, told the Belga news agency that the incident occurred due to a cyber attack, when the unit's evaporators were switched to the defrost mode.

Ahold Delhaize and Kolreuyt say an IT-related incident damaged fridges and freezers overnight in dozens of stores in Belgium and Luxembourg. Stores associated with the companies "Ahad" and "Cooper" in Sweden also report an increase in the temperature of the refrigerators, and one of the stores attributed the matter to a cyber attack, according to Reuters. This is after a cyber attack that took place in France during the month of October, and the police then reported that electronic hackers had taken over the refrigeration units in many large stores, causing temperatures to rise to what sometimes reached 50 degrees Celsius and leading to fires and loss of food products. The spokeswoman for the "Dalhayza" supermarket chain said that the chain noticed an increase in temperatures in the cooling systems on Monday, and notes that an investigation is underway by the company. For his part, Stéphane Mullens, CEO of the Belgian "Sevacobel" company specializing in refrigeration systems, which operates the "Dalhaize" systems, told the Belga news agency that the incident occurred due to a cyber attack, when the unit's evaporators were switched to the defrost mode.