A customer with a shopping cart looks at supermarket refrigerated cases cordoned off with hazard tape and a posted notice, unable to buy chilled products, illustrating the October 2026 cyberattack that disabled refrigeration in more than 500 French supermarkets through internet-connected controllers, spoiling tons of food and making retail IoT security a core deployment concern.
Retail Operations

Hackers Just Cooked the Food in Hundreds of French Supermarkets Through the Freezers. Every Connected Store Device Is Now an Attack Surface.

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  Overnight between October 11 and 12, 2026, hackers attacked the refrigeration systems of hundreds of French supermarkets. According to […]