Temperature soars at Swedish grocery store freezers, one store blames hackers
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November 02, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
magicalhippo
Seems to be happening in Belgium too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50334672
surmcoop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508506 First American military commissaries https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304 Then chains in France While it's unfortunate that it's happening, if a large portion of your inventory depends on regulated temperature, perhaps you should've disconnected your refrigeration from the internet by now?
vpaulus
While I totally understand the need of remote controlling some kind of freezer units, please explain for me, why on the earth do a grocery store need online freezers? The shops are usually open and have on-place human staff 7 days a week, 10-16 hours a day.
ano-ther
Why would you design a freezer to be set to 50 degrees Celsius? > One Swedish store on Monday said on social media that the temperature of its refrigerators and freezers had been set to 50 degrees Celsius (122 F), similar to the attack in France.