A hacking attack on European supermarkets spread across the continent on Monday, hitting fridges and freezers from Sweden to Belgium and forcing stores to throw away food in an incident that echoed a similar attack in France last month.
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Everything is destroyed," Engla Ingwall, sales manager at an ICA franchise store in Stockholm, told Reuters during a visit to the store on Monday, adding the attack occurred at 2 a.m. (0100 GMT) but was only noticed hours later.
“There has been a cyberattack and all our freezers reached 50 degrees (Celsius).”
A spokesperson for privately held ICA said the company was aware that a “limited number of stores were affected by an incident overnight, which impacted their refrigeration and freezer systems”.
It’s likely confirmation bias but I’ve never encountered a Building Automation System that didn’t make me scratch my head and wonder where the adults were.
If anyone is currently looking for a career, BAS technicians make bank. I don’t even think you need a formal education either.
Oh I assure you that you do not.
(Not knocking work learned on-the-job but rather than lack of standards across the industry).
what gets me is so no one took the france attack to heart and hardened their systems. I still don’t seriously see why this is necessary. you have employees. doing a temp check at start and end and intervals between. heck have the cleaning staff do checks overnight. I mean the chance of having a freezer or fridge go down under thos circumstances long enough to lose product is small and if it does happen you lose like one units thing and thats it.
Third party access to HVAC is how Home Depot got hacked.
The disruption and the food loss are bad, but I really think the bigger problem is the potential for a persistent foothold.
