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Cyberattacks hit European grocers: French supermarket freezers hijacked, Dutch and Belgian stores disrupted

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European food retailers have been affected by two separate disruptive cyberattacks: In France, several supermarket chains have had their freezers tampered with and chilled/frozen products destroyed, while in the Netherlands and Belgium workers at stores owned by Dutch multinational Ahold Delhaize have been dealing with disruption resulting from an unspecified “security issue”. Freezers turned into ovens overnight French news channel BFMTV reported today that hundreds of stores across the country were affected by a cyberattack … More → The post Cyberattacks hit European grocers: French supermarket freezers hijacked, Dutch and Belgian stores disrupted appeared first on Help Net Security .

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