Brief
An overnight cyber attack on 12 October disabled the cold-storage control systems at hundreds of French supermarket chains, spoiling fresh meat, dairy and frozen goods within hours. Preliminary estimates put losses in the millions of euros.
The incident underlines a new supply-chain risk for retail: as heating, ventilation and refrigeration migrate to centralised cloud control, a single breach can propagate across many stores simultaneously rather than staying contained on one site.
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