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France says Iran behind costly grocery store refrigeration hacks

French officials believe Iran was behind nationwide cyberattacks on commercial refrigeration units at hundreds of grocery stores in October, the Paris prosecutor's office said Monday, accusing a cyber unit of Iran's powerful Islamic…

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French officials believe Iran was behind nationwide cyberattacks on commercial refrigeration units at hundreds of grocery stores in October, the Paris prosecutor's office said Monday, accusing a cyber unit of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of carrying out the costly hacks. The Oct. 11 hacking attack struck major supermarket chains , hitting "700 retail locations across France," according to the prosecutor's office, which said the attack caused "significant food spoilage and triggered roughly twenty fires" as the temperatures in refrigeration units shot up.

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