Cyberattack targets fridges, freezers of Delhaize, Albert Heijn's sister in Belgium
What happened
Cyberattacks hit refrigerators and freezers in supermarkets across at least seven European countries on Monday, with temperatures in some units rising as high as 50C, according to the Guardian.
Carrefour said 15 of its Belgian stores were affected, and Colruyt Group told Reuters that five Spar shops had their fridge systems attacked.
Sabcobel, the Belgian firm that makes some of the units, said their evaporators were switched to defrost mode, which made them warm up.
“a deliberate attempt to disrupt our food supply chain and undermine consumers' confidence in it”
Guardian
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- 2026-11-02 09:00 UTCNL Times · nltimes.nl ↗
- 2026-11-02 10:01 UTCVRT NWS · vrt.be ↗
- 2026-11-02 11:12 UTCGuardian · theguardian.com ↗
- 2026-11-02 11:25 UTCBBC · bbc.co.uk ↗
- 2026-11-02 14:18 UTCSCMP via Reuters · scmp.com ↗
- 2026-11-02 14:27 UTCEuronews · euronews.com ↗
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