A cyberattack, affecting at least 400 French supermarkets overnight, raised refrigerator temperatures to more than 122°F (50°C) in some cases, forcing millions of dollars’ worth of food to be discarded Monday.
“The weaponization of food has become a reality,” the EU commissioner for agriculture said. The scale of the hack demonstrated “a certain level of sophistication,” a cybersecurity consultant told AFP.
The Élysée has recently called to harden France’s digital infrastructure amid rising security breaches. Monday’s attack may have been continental — a Dutch supermarket chain operating in several countries reported network outages at distribution centers Monday, with one source telling Dutch broadcaster RTL, “You’re going to see huge gaps on the shelves in the coming days.”
Well, here we go! Maybe being able to monitor and control temps offsite wasn’t the best of ideas.
UPI has a fuller story here.
I disagree. For any given attack, the attacker has most responsibilty. Destroying food is particularily vicious. If someone breaks into a house, taking davantage of an old rusted lock, and trashes the inside, the owner shouldn’t be called stupid.
It’s certainly a good idea a harden security and replace weak locks when the number of attacks increase.
Putting the hacking out of it. Remote centralized control is risky for other reasons. Buggy code or a poor ruleset pushed on a friday afternoon would have the same effect. Its bad practice to put all of your eggs in one basket like this. Not everything should be remotely controlled.
But, it seems, they “upgraded” from strong to weak!? What was wrong with the fridges they had 2/5/10/20 years ago.
insulated box, compressor, heat exchanger, thermostat. wtfuck else do they need? just replace those like for like. Some dafty probably paid for fucking internet crap to be added.
Enshittification everywhere.