Strange incident in France: refrigerators fail
A cyberattack on a French retail chain disabled cooling systems at about 150 branches, and with temperatures rising sharply, caused widespread damage to food stock.
A cyber attack on French chain stores disrupted the cooling systems of about 150 branches and caused extensive damage to food as the temperature rose sharply.
According to Ambassador Arjan, quoted by Reuters, a cyber attack on the cooling systems of French chain stores raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers to 50 degrees Celsius in some branches, causing the destruction of food and causing fires. French authorities have launched an extensive investigation to identify the dimensions of this attack.
The cooperative company known as "Le Musketeer", which owns the Intermarche chain of stores, announced that about 150 branches of this complex have been attacked. The cooling systems of these stores were affected for about 6 hours during the night and their temperature increased up to 50 degrees Celsius. The company threw away all the affected food to avoid health risks.
This attack was not limited to Intermarche. Other chain stores in France were also affected. Carrefour reported that 80 of its stores were damaged, and Monopri announced that about 5% of its branches were involved in the incident. The CEO of the "Cooperative U" store cooperative also described the attack on the food storage equipment as an unprecedented and very serious action.
The Paris prosecutor's office announced that this massive attack targeted refrigerators connected to the network in several large food retailers, and in addition to product damage, fires also occurred in some stores. French Prime Minister Sebastien Le Corno asked the National Cyber Security Agency to investigate the scale of the incident. French authorities are also coordinating with their European counterparts to assess the possibility of the attack spreading to other countries.
Reports indicate the possibility of this attack affecting other countries such as Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany and Belgium. At the same time, the Dutch retail company "Ahold Delis" also reported a security problem in its network and temporarily stopped access to some systems to protect its systems. As a result, the application and online delivery services of Albert Hein supermarket were disrupted. However, a direct link between the incident and the cyber attack on French stores has not yet been confirmed.
One of the important points in this case is the vulnerability of industrial equipment connected to the Internet. Store cooling systems are usually managed through control panels that allow for remote temperature regulation. The French cyber security agency has identified a vulnerability in the software of the Danish company Danfoss. This company also announced that it is aware of the incidents related to a number of cooling management systems in France.
Thierry Coutard, CEO of Intermarche, estimated that the damage of the attack across France could reach tens of millions of euros in just one day. Research continues to identify the perpetrators of the attack, determine the exact number of affected stores, and investigate the possibility of its impact on other infrastructure.
In recent years, cyber attacks on industrial systems have gone beyond hacking into computers and stealing information, and have also targeted physical equipment. The 2015 attack on the Ukrainian power grid, which left hundreds of thousands of people without power, was an example of the real-world consequences of hacking into industrial control systems. In such attacks, the attackers can disrupt the operation of the equipment by manipulating the control systems; Without necessarily having physical access to buildings or devices. The expansion of connecting industrial equipment to the Internet has made remote management and monitoring easier, but in case of weak security measures, it has also increased the risk of unauthorized access.
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