French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack

spdustin

Interesting. The same sort of refrigeration failures happened at US military commissaries back in August. Link: https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hack...

sneak

> BFM TV said hackers "managed to remotely trigger the forced defrosting of the refrigeration systems in numerous stores". This is also the fault of the people who plugged the fridges into ethernet.

burlesona

It seems to me like most important “non-computer” hardware should not be connected to the internet. Air gaps don’t need to be continuously patched to keep working.

dewey

Dupe with more comments on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057956