几个欧洲国家的杂货店正在处理影响冰箱和冰柜系统的事件,这些事件似乎是网络攻击的结果。
受影响公司的官员告诉ABC新闻和当地公共广播公司,周一比利时、瑞典、爱尔兰、荷兰和爱沙尼亚的制冷系统出现故障。
在每起事件中,报告的网络攻击都改变了冰箱和冰柜的设置和功能,导致食物变质。
根据美国广播公司获得的声明,目标似乎是较小的商店,只影响了每个连锁店的有限数量的零售点。
瑞典连锁杂货店ICA和Coop向美国广播公司新闻证实,它的一些商店受到了影响,ICA表示,“一夜之间发生的事件影响了一小部分在ICA中心网络外运营的ICA商店”,Coop表示,该事件影响了“800多家商店中的7家”。
据Coop的一位发言人说,情况“得到了控制”。
Coop补充说,该事件发生在计划的系统升级之前,由于一个类似的问题,该系统已经在工作中影响法国杂货店上个月,数百家商店看到冰箱和冰柜遭到类似攻击,温度设定为50摄氏度,或122华氏度。据报道,当时被攻击的大多数系统使用的都是过时的软件。
瑞典舍博的一家ICA杂货店在社交媒体上发帖称,“一夜之间,我们的冰箱和冰柜被黑客入侵,温度被设置为50度。”
比利时连锁超市Delhaize和家乐福也受到了影响,这两家公司的代表告诉ABC新闻,Delhaize将其称为“it事件”
“对家乐福的影响非常有限:目前我们700家商店中有15家受到影响,”一位发言人告诉美国广播公司新闻,并补充说,“所有商店仍在营业,因为它只涉及少数冷藏设备,主要是冰柜。”
马斯格雷夫公司拥有爱尔兰杂货连锁店SuperValu,讲述爱尔兰广播公司rté称,13家商店受到了疑似网络攻击的影响,该攻击影响了特定的制冷型号。
荷兰制冷公司丹佛斯讲述公共广播公司NOS表示,使用其制冷系统的17个设施,如冷冻产品储存和肉店,受到了上个月袭击法国商店的那种网络攻击的影响。丹佛斯系统当时在法国也受到了影响。
美国的几个军事基地在8月份经历了类似的网络攻击,据路透社报道该公司表示,至少有六家地下杂货店受到了类似于最近欧洲袭击的影响,包括10月份在法国发生的事件。据路透社报道,五角大楼正在调查这些事件。
European grocery chains' freezers, refrigerators targeted in apparent cyberattacks
Grocery stores in several European countries are dealing with incidents affecting refrigerator and freezer systems that appear to be the results of cyberattacks.
Refrigeration systems have been malfunctioning Monday in Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, The Netherlands and Estonia, officials from affected companies told ABC News and local public broadcasters.
In each of the incidents, the reported cyberattacks altered the settings and functioning of refrigerator and freezer units, resulting in food spoilage.
The targets appear to have been smaller stores and have affected only a limited number of each chain's retail locations, according to statements obtained by ABC News.
Swedish grocery store chains ICA and Coop confirmed to ABC News that some of its stores had been affected, with ICA saying there was an "incident overnight affecting a small number of ICA stores operating outside ICA’s central network," and Coop saying the incident affected "seven out of more than 800 stores."
The situation was "contained and under control," according to a Coop spokesperson.
Coop added that the incident occurred ahead of a planned system upgrade, which had been in the works because of a similar issueaffecting French grocery storeslast month, in which hundreds of stores saw the fridges and freezers similarly hacked and temperatures set to 50 degrees Celsius, or 122 degrees Fahrenheit.Most of the systems targeted then were reportedly using outdated software.
One ICA grocery store in Sjöbo, Sweden, posted to social media that "overnight, our refrigerators and freezers were hacked, and the temperature was set to 50 degrees."
Belgian supermarket chains Delhaize and Carrefour were also affected, representatives for the companies told ABC News, with Delhaize referring to it as an "IT incident."
"[T]he impact at Carrefour is very limited: currently 15 of our 700 stores are affected," a spokesperson told ABC News, adding "all stores remain open because it only concerns a few refrigeration units, mainly freezers."
Musgrave, the company that owns Irish grocery chain SuperValu,toldIrish broadcaster RTÉ that 13 stores had been affected by a suspected cyberattack that affected a specific refrigeration model.
Dutch refrigeration company Danfosstoldpublic broadcaster NOS that seventeen facilities using its refrigeration systems, such as frozen product storage and butcher shops, were affected by a cyberattack of the kind that hit French stores last month. Danfoss systems were affected at the time in France as well.
Several military bases in the U.S. experienced similar cyberattacks in August,according to Reuters, which said at least six commissaries -- on-base grocery stores -- had been affected in ways similar to the recent European attacks, including the October incidents in France. The Pentagon is investigating the incidents, according to Reuters.





