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Oct 27, 2026
Adrienne BloomHOST
The attack resulted in widespread food spoilage and losses, as well as fires in some stores.
Adrienne BloomHOST
Major retailers that were affected included Intermarché, Cooperative U, Carrefour, Monoprix, and E. Leclerc.
Adrienne BloomHOST
Some retailers in Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany, and Belgium were also reportedly affected.
Adrienne BloomHOST
Now, France's national cybersecurity agency is investigating the incident and has reportedly identified a vulnerability in software used by refrigeration equipment supplied by Danfoss.
Adrienne BloomHOST
The company said the affected equipment was running outdated firmware that it had previously advised customers to update or replace.
Adrienne BloomHOST
Similar refrigeration controllers were also found to be exposed to the internet in other countries, including the US and the UK.
Adrienne BloomHOST
Now, although official estimates of the total losses haven't been released, Intermarché's CEO suggested that the attack could cost affected retailers tens of millions of euros in discarded product.
Adrienne BloomHOST
The incident highlights how vulnerabilities in internet-connected equipment can have direct consequences for food safety, food security, and business continuity, and it reinforces the importance of cybersecurity as an essential component of food defense.
Justin DawsonHOST
Next up, we dive into the bizarre industrial cyberattack across France that feels that it was lifted straight from a sci-fi thriller.
Justin DawsonHOST
Overnight, hackers remotely hijacked internet-connected temperature controllers across hundreds of major supermarkets, including Intermarché and Carrefour.
Justin DawsonHOST
Instead of keeping frozen food at minus 27 degrees, the hackers forced the chiller units to heat up to well over 50 and 80 degrees Celsius.
Justin DawsonHOST
Store managers arrived the next morning to find walls of oven-like heat that literally cooked frozen stock while in the aisles, causing millions of euro in damage.
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Justin DawsonHOST
In an ice cream aisle at one store, digital displays read 26.5 degrees Celsius.
Justin DawsonHOST
In several locations, the extreme heat triggered electrical fires, setting off sprinklers and causing severe water damage.
Justin DawsonHOST
Between 400 and 700 stores were impacted nationwide across major chains including Intermarché, Corporative U, Carrefour, E-Leclerc, Monoprix and Netto.
Justin DawsonHOST
I hope I pronounced those supermarkets well.
Tony GrassoGUEST
They generally don't, particularly the older ones, right? It's not, it's not the job of this controller really to have security embedded in it, though that is changing.
Tony GrassoGUEST
And so we've got major French chains, I've never heard of them by the way, but Intermarché, Carrefour, and Super U, they had their freezers attacked, and what the, what the, uh, attacker did was put them on continuous defrost cycles, so driving the temperatures up to like fifty degrees C.
Tony GrassoGUEST
The imp- There was two major impacts to this.
Tony GrassoGUEST
One, uh, tens of millions supposedly of spoiled food, um, it cost the company, um, 'cause of course all the refri- refrigeration's been removed.
Oli LawHOST
These will be noteworthy stories we think you should know about, but less detailed than our two core threats analyzed.
Oli LawHOST
Hundreds of French supermarkets, including at least 300 Intermarché and Netto stores, saw refrigerators warm up after a cyber attack.
Oli LawHOST
Co-operative You and Eau Leclerc stores were hit too, and affected stores throughout all their fresh and frozen products.
Oli LawHOST
Danfoss said most of the affected equipment was legacy kit that no longer gets security updates.
Fionnán SheehanHOST
So it was noticeable in France when I was there this summer.
Fionnán SheehanHOST
In the supermarkets, the big chains like Intermarché or Leclerc, similar to our Duns and Tescos as we'd have in Ireland, a lot of signs up about, you know, beat the cost of living, a lot of special offers.
Fionnán SheehanHOST
The branding seemed to be all about there is a big cost of living crisis here and we're, you know, these prices will help you beat it.
Fionnán SheehanHOST
So How bad is the cost of living crisis in France compared to the rest of Europe? Or are there instances in France that are making it worse than elsewhere? I
Ben MillerHOST
Yeah, it really has.
Ben MillerHOST
And I think it's worth noting that it's multiple different French grocery retailers that are impacted, you know, Intermarché, Sistemu, Leclerc, to name but three.
Ben MillerHOST
So it is relatively widespread.
Ben MillerHOST
And Christian, look, what do we know about how these attacks might have taken place?
Jerry PerulloHOST
That's one of our headlines.
Jerry PerulloHOST
And like, it's one of those things that might not have caught everybody's attention, but Intermarché, not just them, a number of brands in France and now I think Spain as well.
Jerry PerulloHOST
hundreds had a OT attack over the internet.
Jerry PerulloHOST
I'm just going to call it microcontrollers, I think that's at least lowercase correct, that could control panels for refrigeration devices, and a threat actor changed them to heat instead of cool by using a, I think it's called a defrost cycle, and to run it for eight hours instead of one hour, and temperatures of over 100 degrees Celsius in some cases, and millions of dollars of inventory burned, fires in multiple locations.
Lucy HarperPANELIST
Overnight from Sunday into Monday, someone got into the refrigeration controls at hundreds of French supermarkets and switched the freezers to defrost.
Lucy HarperPANELIST
Intermarché's owner says units at around 150 stores sat at 50 degrees for six hours.
Noel BradfordHOST
50? You could prove bread at that.
Lucy HarperPANELIST
Carefour says 80 stores were hit and Cooperative U about 100.
Lucy HarperPANELIST
The Paris prosecutor says there were fires and spoiled food.
Lucy HarperPANELIST
BFM TV reported two shops in Alsace losing around €270,000 between them.
Lucy HarperPANELIST
Intermarché's boss reckons tens of millions nationally in one night.
Noel BradfordHOST
And this is why it belongs on our show.
speaker_0HOST
It's one of the clearest cases yet of a cyber attack doing physical damage on the shop floor.
speaker_0HOST
While the stores were closed, fridge and freezer temperatures were raised remotely across several major chains, including Intermarché, Carrefour, Coopérative U and Monoprix.
speaker_0HOST
The Paris prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation and no one has been identified as responsible.
speaker_0HOST
France's National Cyber Security Agency confirmed numerous compromised controllers made by Danfoss, then widened its alert to equipment from Copeland and Dixell.
speaker_0HOST
And if you think cyber attacks are just about stolen credit card numbers or encrypted spreadsheets, take a hard look at France.
speaker_0HOST
Overnight, hackers launched a coordinated industrial attack targeting five competing supermarket conglomerates, Intermarché, Carrefour, Monoprix, Netto, and Cooperteeth.
speaker_0HOST
Ooh.
speaker_0HOST
They didn't steal customer emails.
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