{"id":832,"date":"2026-11-02T13:59:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2026-11-02T13:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:59:56","slug":"hackers-cook-supermarket-freezers-six-european-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"HACKERS JUST CRANKED SUPERMARKET FREEZERS TO 50C ACROSS SIX COUNTRIES! | Millions of euros of food in the bin, and the fix isn&#8217;t a patch, it&#8217;s a screwdriver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE ICE CREAM NEVER STOOD A CHANCE! Dozens of supermarkets across <strong>six European countries<\/strong> have been hit by a suspected cyber-attack on their refrigerators and freezers, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cq1kd1nee80eo\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Around <strong>40 Delhaize<\/strong> stores in Belgium and Luxembourg were hit, plus shops in Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands and Estonia. Freezer temperatures reportedly rose as high as <strong>50C (122F)<\/strong>. One ICA store in Sj\u00f6bo, Sweden, posted: &#8220;Our refrigerators and freezers have been hacked overnight and they have set the temperature to 50 degrees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How? Belgian fridge maker Sabcobel says the units&#8217; evaporators were switched to defrost mode, believed to be the same trick used last month against hundreds of French supermarkets. CEO Stephan Moelans called it a cyber-attack and said the fix needs <strong>physical modifications<\/strong>, not just software updates.<\/p>\n<p>The damage is piling up. Local media say millions of euros of food has been thrown out. One Delhaize branch in Hoeilaart says it lost <strong>\u20ac100,000<\/strong> of produce. Carrefour says 15 Belgian stores were affected, Ireland&#8217;s SuperValu saw 13 stores hit, and Danfoss told Dutch radio at least 17 companies in the Netherlands were attacked overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Who did it? Nobody knows yet. The UK&#8217;s National Cyber Security Centre says it&#8217;s working with partners to &#8220;fully understand details,&#8221; and no UK incidents have been reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cq1kd1nee80eo\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of euros of food in the bin, and the fix isn&#8217;t a patch, it&#8217;s a screwdriver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bb-hacked-freezers-1102.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}