French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack
billybuckwheat
35 points
17 comments
October 12, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (7 comments)
celticninja
I remember someone positing that something similar had happened to fridges on US army bases
grebc
I can fathom the product losses from this one incident would outweigh all the imaginary reasons people tell themselves for why monitoring/connected/smart devices are useful in their work/home. Definitely won’t stop anyone buying though is the saddest part.
gpvos
There was also an, as far as is known, unrelated cyberattack on Dutch supermarket chain AH, which has had to suspend activity at some of its distribution centres.
Hamuko
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057551
seydor
Are you sure they weren't just running backup nodes for Pied Piper's decentralized internet?
Charly_HW
why so many dupes from this incident?
ChrisArchitect
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304