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Hackers Overheat Fridges at Supermarkets Across France, Wasting Food and Starting Fires

Fridges and freezers at hundreds of stores reportedly surged to temperatures up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius).

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Oct 12, 2026·Excerpt

Hackers Overheat Fridges at Supermarkets Across France, Wasting Food and Starting Fires — Image: A woman walks past empty fresh-food refrigerators at an Intermarché supermarket in Névez, western France, on October 12, 2026, following a cyberattack affecting the French supermarket chains Intermarché and Cooperative U that caused their refrigerators to defrost. © Fred Tanneau / AFP via Getty Imag

Unknown hackers breached hundreds of supermarkets across France this weekend and remotely raised thermostats on fridges and freezers up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius), spoiling huge amounts of food, French authorities told Reuters. Paris prosecutors say the attack is “large-scale.”

The full extent of the damage is unclear, but both food spoilage and fires have reportedly been the result. Intermarche CEO Thierry Cotillard said on BFM TV that they’re likely in the tens of millions of euros, according…

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