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When defrost becomes sabotage: 3 OT lessons from France’s supermarket attack
Hackers cooked hundreds of French supermarkets’ freezers, and the real lesson is to know who can log into your controllers and how fast someone reacts.
Summary
On the night of 11 October, someone remotely put the cold cases of several hundred French supermarkets into defrost. At Intermarché and Netto stores, fridges and freezers warmed to around 50°C and stayed there for about six hours, according to Les Mousquetaires, which expects losses in the tens of millions of euros. By morning, staff were filling skips with meat, frozen goods and vegetables. Coopérative U counted 80 affected stores out of roughly 2,000.
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