{"type":"post","id":"cyberattack-on-fridges-hits-supermarkets-across-europe-f8ad14","slug":"cyberattack-on-fridges-hits-supermarkets-across-europe-f8ad14","title":"Cyberattack on fridges hits supermarkets across Europe","description":"A cyberattack overnight on November 2 disrupted refrigeration in supermarket stores in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg, with one Swedish store reporting freezer temperatures of 50°C and ruined stock.","retrieval_nugget":"A cyberattack overnight on November 2 disrupted refrigeration in supermarket stores in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg, with one Swedish store reporting freezer temperatures of 50°C and ruined stock. The incident matters beyond retail: networked operational systems can turn a digital intrusion into immediate physical and inventory losses.","published_at":"2026-11-02","updated_at":"2026-11-02","record_date":"2026-11-02","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["security"],"entities":["Reuters","Ahold Delhaize","Colruyt","ICA","Coop"],"related_patterns":[],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Reports a separate November 2 incident affecting supermarket refrigeration in Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg and Estonia, extending the previously reported French attacks to more countries.","prior_refs":["https://newruntime.com/posts/hackers-heat-french-supermarket-fridges-sparking-fires-and-016080/","https://newruntime.com/posts/not-cool-who-hacked-france-s-supermarket-fridges-fd93e4/"],"source_url":"https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/temperature-soars-swedish-grocery-store-freezers-one-store-blames-hackers-2026-11-02","source_urls":["https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/temperature-soars-swedish-grocery-store-freezers-one-store-blames-hackers-2026-11-02"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:cyberattack-on-fridges-hits-supermarkets-across-europe-f8ad14","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/cyberattack-on-fridges-hits-supermarkets-across-europe-f8ad14/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/cyberattack-on-fridges-hits-supermarkets-across-europe-f8ad14.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/cyberattack-on-fridges-hits-supermarkets-across-europe-f8ad14.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/cyberattack-on-fridges-hits-supermarkets-across-europe-f8ad14.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/security/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security/","title":"Security","reason":"Explore the security topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}