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Technology · 3 hours ago

UK Also Hit by Supermarket Fridge Cyber-Attack, NCSC Says

UK Also Hit by Supermarket Fridge Cyber-Attack, NCSC Says

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Britain's National Cyber Security Centre says hackers who remotely cranked up temperatures in supermarket fridges across Europe also exploited vulnerable systems in a couple of UK cases. Chief executive Dr Richard Horne said staff worked through the night warning organisations at risk. Stores in Ireland, Sweden, Estonia and Belgium were hit on Monday, weeks after similar attacks spoiled millions of euros of food in France.

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