00:00Supermarket freezers in Europe were hit by an unusual kind of attack.
00:04On Monday, stores in Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Estonia had refrigeration problems.
00:10They appear to be cyberattacks.
00:12At one Swedish store, fridges and freezers were hacked and set to 50 degrees Celsius.
00:18That's 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:21Staff there threw out affected products.
00:23A Belgian chain linked an IT incident to refrigeration problems at several dozen stores.
00:28Another chain counted 15 of its more than 700 Belgian stores affected.
00:33In Ireland, 13 stores pulled chilled and frozen products from sale as a precaution.
00:38That company later declared the incident fully resolved.
00:41In Estonia, attackers raised a store's refrigeration temperature, but it was fixed within minutes.
00:47The incidents follow a similar attack in France last month.
00:51There, hackers took control of refrigeration in hundreds of stores.
00:55Those attacks appeared to target old systems.
00:57Disclosure, this video contains stock footage and content created or enhanced using AI-assisted tools.
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