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Supermarkets across Europe were hit Monday by a new wave of apparent cyberattacks affecting fridges and freezers<\/a>.
The incidents caused temperature spikes and spoiled food at stores in Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Estonia.
They follow a cyberattack in France last month<\/a>, in which, police said, hackers seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarkets, raising temperatures as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit and causing fires and food losses.
Authorities have not indicated who could have been behind the incidents. There were no claims of responsibility.
The continent is confronting broader security fears stemming from Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine<\/a>.
The new cyberattack highlights how digital threats can increasingly affect people\u2019s everyday lives, the European Commission said Monday.
The Ahold Delhaize supermarket chain in the Netherlands told NBC News on Monday that it was aware of an \u201cIT incident\u201d affecting the refrigeration systems in a number of its stores. \u201cOur teams are working hard to fully assess the situation,\u201d it said in an email.
Stephan Moelans, the CEO of the Belgian refrigeration company Sabcobel, which operates Delhaize\u2019s systems, told the Belga news agency that the incident was a cyberattack, in which the units\u2019 evaporators were switched to defrost mode.
A spokesperson for Colruyt Group, which operates Spar stores in Belgium under a franchise system, said five shops\u2019 fridge systems were attacked. The Carrefour supermarket chain in the country said a \u201ccyberattack targeting refrigeration installations only had an extremely limited impact,\u201d affecting 15 of its more than 700 stores.
The Swedish furniture giant Ikea said its store in Mons, Belgium, was also affected.
The \u201ccyber incident\u201d hit the shop\u2019s refrigeration and freezer units, according to a statement sent via email. The company said it was investigating exactly what had happened.
The store in Mons is open to customers, and none of Ikea\u2019s other stores in Belgium have been affected, it said.
Swedish grocery retailer chain ICA also told NBC News that its systems were not affected but that it had been informed of \u201can incident at a small number of stores that use an external supplier and have their connectivity outside ICA\u2019s central network.\u201d
The incident has affected the stores\u2019 refrigeration and freezer systems, the company said in an email. \u201cICA is currently supporting the affected stores in managing the incident,\u201d it said.
The ICA Kvantum branch in Sj\u00f6bo in southern Sweden wrote on Facebook that its fridges and freezers had been hacked and set to 122 degrees Fahrenheit. It said it was working to discard the affected items.
The privately held grocery retail group Coop told the Swedish daily Aftonbladet that similar incidents had affected six of its stores.
In Ireland, the food wholesaler Musgrave said a cyber incident had affected refrigeration systems in 13 of its SuperValu stores, forcing it to remove some chilled and frozen products from sale.
\u201cOur monitoring systems alerted us to the issue and we took immediate action,\u201d it said in a statement. \u201cOur investigation is ongoing.\u201d The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In Estonia, a company that makes the affected technology said one of its clients had been hit by a cyberattack in which attackers accessed a computer controlling refrigeration and also turned up the temperature to 122 degrees Fahrenheit, public broadcaster ERR reported.
From refrigerators and heating systems to security cameras and alarm networks, an expanding range of devices can now be monitored and controlled remotely, creating new opportunities for cybercriminals.
Sweden\u2019s national cybersecurity center \u2014 which said it could not speculate on who was behind the attacks \u2014 is working on several incidents affecting grocery stores across the country, the head of the center, John Billow, said Monday.
\u201cWe have in recent weeks … identified that we have quite a lot of exposed operational technology devices in Sweden that we have been clear about the necessity to update or patch,\u201d he said.
Yuliya Talmazan is a reporter for NBC News Digital, based in London.
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