Groupement Mousquetaires
French multinational retailerwww.mousquetaires.com
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Oct 14, 2026
Chris WaltonHOST
According to CNBC, citing Reuters, the attack hit stores at Carrefour, Monoprix, Intermarché, and Cooperative U and reportedly E. Leclerc as well, spoiling fresh and frozen food and forcing stores to empty their cases.
Chris WaltonHOST
Intermarché's parent company, Les Mousquetaires, says one hundred and eighty of its French stores were affected, and it expects losses in the several millions of euros.
Chris WaltonHOST
And here's the key detail.
Chris WaltonHOST
The hackers didn't come in through the retailer's own systems.
Chris WaltonHOST
According to CNBC, citing Reuters, the attack hit stores at Carrefour, Monoprix, Intermarché, and Cooperativa, and reportedly E. Leclerc as well, spoiling fresh and frozen food and forcing stores to empty their cases.
Chris WaltonHOST
Intermarché's parent company, Les Mousquetaires, says 180 of its French stores were affected, and it expects losses in the several millions of euros.
Chris WaltonHOST
And here's the key detail.
Chris WaltonHOST
The hackers didn't come in through the retailer's own systems.
Rachel HayterCORRESPONDENT
Carrefour says 80 of its supermarkets were hit, 5% of Monoprix's almost 500 stores were affected.
Rachel HayterCORRESPONDENT
Les Mousquetaires, which owns retailer Antemarché, says fridges at about 150 of its stores were heated to 50 degrees overnight for six hours.
Rachel HayterCORRESPONDENT
On X, Co-operative U CEO Dominic Shelcher said his supermarket group was also affected.
Dominic ShelckerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Targeting equipment essential to the preservation of fresh products and to the food supply of the French people is of extreme gravity and is unprecedented.
Rachel HayterCORRESPONDENT
Carrefour says 80 of its supermarkets were hit, 5% of Monoprix's almost 500 stores were affected.
Rachel HayterCORRESPONDENT
Les Mousquetaires, which owns retailer Antemarché, says fridges at about 150 of its stores were heated to 50 degrees overnight for six hours.
Rachel HayterCORRESPONDENT
On X, Co-operative U CEO Dominic Shelcher said his supermarket group was also affected.
Dominic ShelcherSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Targeting equipment essential to the preservation of fresh products and to the food supply of the French people is of extreme gravity and is unprecedented.
Rachel CostaHOST
Attacks of new generations have paralyzed the eggs.
Rachel CostaHOST
The refrigeration systems of more than 300 points of sale of the chain Les Mousquetaires are causing a loss of fresh products.
Rachel CostaHOST
The director Thierry Cotillard has indicated that the pirates have exploited a vulnerability of a Danish software, demonstrating the growing threat of cyber.
Rachel CostaHOST
Risks for the food chain.
speaker_0HOST
So the attackers threw these units into defrost mode, heated them up.
speaker_0HOST
And the head of Les Mousquetaires, the group that owns Intermarché, they said they were expecting massive losses.
speaker_1HOST
Because you basically have to throw everything away.
speaker_0HOST
Literally every single compromised product in those affected stores.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
L'Eclair of the Cooperatives U group, Monoprix, and Carrefour were all affected.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The worst hit was Les Mousquetaires group with 300 shops.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Spoiled products in this Paris suburb supermarket are estimated to cost 55,000 euros.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One store manager in regional France says his fridges reached 80 degrees, and everything melted.
speaker_14CORRESPONDENT
Leclerc, the Cooperatives U group, Monoprix, and Carrefour were all affected.
speaker_14CORRESPONDENT
The worst hit was Les Mousquetaires group with 300 shops.
speaker_14CORRESPONDENT
Spoiled products in this Paris suburb supermarket are estimated to cost 55,000 euros.
speaker_17CORRESPONDENT
euros.To avoid more attacks, the director has disconnected the remote operation of the store's cold units.
MarkHOST
But I am struggling with the economic logic here.
MarkHOST
Why attack a fridge? If you're a sophisticated hacker group capable of breaching industrial control systems, you usually want a payout.
NancyHOST
Naturally, yeah.
MarkHOST
But you cannot hold a pallet of cheese for ransom.
NancyHOST
Oh, absolutely.
MarkHOST
We are looking at a staggering scale of waste.
MarkHOST
The report details that Intermarché, which is owned by the group Les Mousquetaires, had about 150 of their stores hit.
NancyHOST
And the fridges in those locations were baked at fifty degrees Celsius for six solid hours overnight.