UK meat processing firms hit amid fridge and freezer cyber attacks on supermarkets across Europe

Summary

Cyber hackers targeted fridges and freezers in supermarkets in several European countries including Ireland, causing temperatures to increase and food to spoil, Sky News reported on Monday 2 November, the Financial Times writing that retailers in Sweden and Belgium were affected by the latest attack. Supermarket fridges and freezers in seven European countries malfunctioned, The Guardian reported, the EU condemning what it said was 'a deliberate attempt to disrupt our food supply chain and undermine consumers' confidence in it'. On Tuesday 3 November Euronews reported that nine countries were affected by the suspected cyber attacks of 2 November, including Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Italy, and Sky News that cyber attacks have affected the UK meat processing industry, a top cyber security official said. The Evening Standard and The Independent headlined that UK meat processing firms were hit, writing that the cyber attack on French supermarket fridges involved legacy technology connected to internet with default passwords, and HuffPost UK reported that the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is 'aware of a couple of instances where vulnerable technology had been exploited in the UK', according to its chief executive, Dr Richard Horne. City A.M. reported that British food suppliers have been caught up in the attacks, the NCSC confirming a small number of incidents in Britain, and The Independent headlined that hackers are already targeting UK supermarket freezers.

Latest: Cyber attacks have affected the UK meat processing industry, a top cyber security official said, Sky News reported, the Evening Standard and The Independent writing that the cyber attack on French supermarket fridges involved legacy technology connected to internet with default passwords, and City A.M. that the NCSC confirmed vulnerable refrigeration technology had been exploited in a small number of incidents in Britain, while Euronews counted nine countries affected by the suspected cyber attacks of 2 November.

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