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‘Everything is destroyed’: Supermarket fridges hit 50 degrees after cyberattack

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
November 03, 2026 • 01:00 AM
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From Ireland to IKEA freezers in Sweden, hackers turned up the heat on fridges and freezers, forcing stores to throw away food.

‘Everything is destroyed’: Supermarket fridges hit 50 degrees after cyberattack

Stockholm | A hacking attack on European supermarkets spread across the continent on Monday (Tuesday AEDT), hitting fridges and freezers from Sweden to Belgium and forcing stores to throw away food in an incident that echoed a similar attack in France last month.

The attack raised temperatures in refrigerator and freezer units at dozens of stores and hit supermarket groups Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt in Belgium and Luxembourg, as well as Swedish grocers ICA and Coop. At least one IKEA store was also affected.

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