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.
The attack, which raised temperatures in refrigerator and ?freezer units at dozens of stores, hit supermarket groups Ahold Delhaize (AD.AS), opens new tab and
Colruyt (COLR.BR), opens new tab in Belgium and Luxembourg, as well as Swedish grocers ICA and Coop. Furniture-to-meatballs retailer IKEA also saw at least one store affected.
"Everything is destroyed," Engla Ingwall, sales manager at an ICA franchise store in Stockholm, told Media during a visit to the store on Monday, adding the attack occurred at 2 a.m. (0100 GMT) but was only noticed hours later.