Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food

Hackers targeted the refrigeration systems of hundreds of French grocery stores overnight, remotely raising the temperatures of refrigerators and freezers to as high as 50 degrees Celsius. The malicious cyberattack resulted in ruined food supplies and sparked fires across the affected supermarket locations.

The incident highlights vulnerabilities in critical commercial infrastructure, as unauthorized digital access was weaponized to cause physical destruction and inventory loss on a large scale across multiple retail locations in France.