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French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1865776/french-supermarkets-suffer-refrigerator-shutdown-after-unprecedented-cyberattack
27•billybuckwheat•1h ago

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celticninja•1h ago
I remember someone positing that something similar had happened to fridges on US army bases
grebc•1h ago
I can fathom the product losses from this one incident would outweigh all the imaginary reasons people tell themselves for why monitoring/connected/smart devices are useful in their work/home.

Definitely won’t stop anyone buying though is the saddest part.

skybrian•1h ago
When a freezer stops working and nobody notices for a while, the food will spoil then, too.

If it were monitoring-only, rather than connected to the power, it would probably be fine.

grebc•51m ago
It’s a supermarket, staff will be stocktaking, restocking, walking past A LOT.
skybrian•40m ago
True, but they'd need to be specifically checking a thermometer or it might warm up a fair bit before being noticed.
kulahan•27m ago
It’s kind of a low-grade risk though, don’t you think? I imagine it’s unlikely we’d see major changes over “some stores lost a few hundred grand due to a cyber attack”.

I suppose it could expand, but even still, there’s plenty of non-perishable foods. It would be annoying at worst, but maybe never outright dangerous?

shlip•34m ago
Well "a" (aka 1) freezer malfunctionning will let a few items spoil. Hundreds of connected appliances nation wide, that's a different story.

They had been able to manage just fine for several decades before internet of shits happened.

Fear not for them though, they'll go whine under the government's noze and get a refund. So much for the liberalism they praise when everything is fine for them.

gpvos•58m ago
There was also an, as far as is known, unrelated cyberattack on Dutch supermarket chain AH, which has had to suspend activity at some of its distribution centres.
depworker•34m ago
Amsterdam will starve a bit these days, rest of the Netherlands has no supermarket monoculture.
Hamuko•58m ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057551

seydor•42m ago
Are you sure they weren't just running backup nodes for Pied Piper's decentralized internet?
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French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack

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27•billybuckwheat•1h ago•12 comments