🔶 Cyber ground attack on the French blood bank system; The blood products were not damaged.
French authorities are talking about a cyber ground attack that targeted several blood storage centers and tried to raise the storage temperature to a very high level, but it was stopped before the blood products or samples were damaged.
This incident comes after supermarkets in several European countries reported this week that their refrigerators and freezers overheated after being remotely controlled by attackers; An event that spoiled several tons of food and caused damage of several million euros.
The French Blood Organization (EFS) announced in a statement late on Tuesday, November 3 that "the temperature and thawing thresholds were raised to very high levels" in three plasma cold storage centers on Monday. This organization announced that this ground attack targeted one of the refrigeration equipment suppliers in three centers of this organization and stated: "No health and treatment consequences were identified and no blood products were lost."