“Which countries in Europe have been hit by supermarket fridge cyber incidents?”

Key points

• The incident affected Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden.
• Retailers reported refrigeration problems, forcing some stores to discard food due to temperature rises.
• The EU called the events a deliberate attempt to disrupt the food supply chain.
• Italy reported multiple Coop supermarkets impacted; investigations and cybersecurity meetings followed.
• Similar outages were reported in France three weeks earlier, with no group claiming responsibility.