'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack

Dozens of supermarkets across seven European countries experienced refrigerator and freezer failures after a cyber-attack, according to the BBC. The affected stores discarded large quantities of food as a result of the outage. The BBC reported the incident raised questions about the vulnerability of connected infrastructure to cyber threats.

• BBC — 'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack
• BBC — If hackers can take control of a supermarket freezer, how vulnerable is other tech?

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