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Europe faces fridge hacks and flight bomb threats, CNBC reports
CNBC said supermarket refrigeration systems across several European countries were remotely altered last week, and hoax bomb threats disrupted flights and newsrooms.
- New headline Was: “From supermarket fridges to passenger flights, a wave of threats is testing Europe's defenses”
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Hackers remotely changed supermarket refrigeration settings in several European countries last week, forcing retailers to throw out spoiled food, CNBC reported on Monday1.
Stores in Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden and the Netherlands found systems set as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit), affecting Ahold Delhaize, IKEA, Colruyt Group and Carrefour, CNBC said1. The outlet said the episode followed an October cyberattack on hundreds of French supermarkets that overheated fridges and spoiled food, and that French blood-bank refrigeration was later targeted in what appeared similar1.
CNBC also reported a wave of suspected hoax bomb threats that disrupted dozens of passenger flights, with some diversions and fighter-jet escorts, and later threats against Sky News in the United Kingdom and Ireland's RTÉ1.
Authorities had not established who was responsible or whether the incidents were connected, CNBC said1. Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, told CNBC that if Russia were involved the aim could be cost imposition on European leaders1. "Convincing the European political leadership that the costs of a war can come home to them," he said1. CNBC said Russia did not immediately respond to a request for comment1.
