🔶 Failure of refrigerators; Possible cyber attack on European supermarkets.
Refrigerators and freezers, which are supposed to keep food cold, suddenly heated up in several supermarkets in Belgium and Sweden. Belga and Titi news agencies report the possibility of a ground cyber attack on this equipment; An incident after the ground attack similar to last month in France.
In Belgium, stores of the "Dell", "Carrefour" and "Spar" chains are among the affected centers. The Belga news agency reported, citing the refrigeration equipment service company "Sevakovel", that about 20 systems have been affected so far.
This figure is related to the number of equipment, not necessarily to the number of stores.
According to Subcobel, the remote equipment was put into the compromise mode; A change that raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers.
Stefan Mullens, CEO of this company, told Belga: "We started sending technicians at one o'clock in the morning to control the situation." The published information did not specify the amount of damage, the amount of food that may be damaged, and the identity of the perpetrators.
In Sweden, supermarkets reported a sudden increase in the temperature of the cooling equipment.
The public relations officer of the "IKA" store group told the Titi news agency: "We know that a limited number of branches were affected by malfunctions that disrupted the stores' cooling and freezing systems."
In the middle of last month, a similar ground attack hit about 150 stores in France.