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About 150 of the affected stores belonged to Intermarche, a spokesman for parent company Groupement Mousquetaires confirmed to Bloomberg. Fridges and freezers climbed to roughly 50 degrees Celsius for about six hours. Stores ended up tossing out meat, frozen goods, and vegetables that could not be saved.\n\nGrocery chains rarely treat refrigeration controllers as attack surface, but they are networked industrial systems like any other, and this incident shows what happens when someone flips the wrong switch at scale. The damage here was spoiled inventory rather than stolen data, a reminder that attacks on physical infrastructure can be cheap to pull off and expensive to clean up in very mundane ways.\n\nNo one has claimed responsibility, and Bloomberg has not said how the attackers got in, which is usually the detail companies would rather you skip.","[\"cyberattack\",\"france\",\"retail\",\"industrial-control-systems\"]","2026-10-12T14:20:37.000Z","2026-10-12T15:50:31.642Z","2026-10-12T15:50:36.118Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Fix the inconsistent store count for Intermarche: paragraph two calls it 'hundreds of Intermarche stores' but then cites the spokesman's confirmed figure of 'about 150 locations' for the same chain — the 'hundreds' figure belongs to French supermarkets broadly per the source, not Intermarche specifically, so correct the sentence to match the source's attribution.","resolved","security",[32,33,34,35],"cyberattack","france","retail","industrial-control-systems",[37,40,43,45,47,49],{"name":38,"url":39},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Ffrench-supermarket-refrigeration-cyberattack-intermarche",{"name":41,"url":42},"Hacker News","https:\u002F\u002Fuk.finance.yahoo.com\u002Fnews\u002Ffrench-supermarket-chains-cyberattack-forced-115141288.html",{"name":41,"url":44},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.com\u002Fnews\u002Farticles\u002Fcrq5nzxv9q4yo",{"name":41,"url":46},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reuters.com\u002Fbusiness\u002Fretail-consumer\u002Ffrench-supermarket-chain-intermarche-hit-by-cyberattack-150-stories-targeted-2026-10-12\u002F",{"name":41,"url":48},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.rnz.co.nz\u002Fnews\u002Fworld\u002F1865776\u002Ffrench-supermarkets-suffer-refrigerator-shutdown-after-unprecedented-cyberattack",{"name":50,"url":51},"PCMag","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pcmag.com\u002Fnews\u002Fcyberattack-in-france-hits-supermarket-refrigerators-spoiling-food",0,{"sections":54},[55,60,64,69,74,79,84,89,94,99,104,109,114,119],{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"AI","ai",6989,"2026-10-13T20:09:54.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":30,"count":62,"latest_published_at":63},"Security",973,"2026-10-13T21:14:42.000Z",{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Policy","policy",503,"2026-10-13T20:36:44.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Deals","deals",500,"2026-10-13T18:33:14.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Hardware","hardware",250,"2026-10-13T19:34:34.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",211,"2026-10-13T20:01:54.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Science","science",200,"2026-10-13T19:17:42.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"Startups","startups",132,"2026-10-13T21:15:00.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Software","software",122,"2026-10-13T18:25:37.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",116,"2026-10-13T16:20:18.000Z",{"name":105,"slug":106,"count":107,"latest_published_at":108},"General","general",76,"2026-10-13T20:42:20.000Z",{"name":110,"slug":111,"count":112,"latest_published_at":113},"Gaming","gaming",65,"2026-10-13T19:00:48.000Z",{"name":115,"slug":116,"count":117,"latest_published_at":118},"Reviews","reviews",36,"2026-10-13T18:00:00.000Z",{"name":120,"slug":121,"count":122,"latest_published_at":123},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]