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Suspected cyber-attack hits 40 Delhaize stores
BBC News·
Around 40 Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg lost refrigerator and freezer control in a suspected cyber-attack. Several ICA and Coop shops in Sweden were hit, and Thirteen SuperValu shops in Ireland were affected. One ICA store said freezer temperatures were set to 50 C. A Delhaize branch in Hoeilaart estimated €100,000 in lost produce.
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What It Means For You
- Shops have thrown away chilled and frozen food after overnight temperature failures.
- Carrefour said 15 Belgian stores were affected and remained open after emergency steps.
- Seven of about 800 Coop stores in Sweden were hit, with the chain calling the situation contained.
What's Happening
- Belgium and Sweden cyber-security agencies said they were monitoring the incident.
- Delhaize described a computer incident overnight across 40 shops.
- ICA said a small number of stores outside its central network were affected.
A wider retail freezer pattern
- The episode follows a similar incident last month that hit hundreds of French supermarkets.
- Responsibility for the attack has not been established in the BBC report.
- An ICA store in Sjöbo said freezers were set to 50 degrees overnight before reopening.
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