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Supermarkets across Europe hit by new fridge cyberattacks
The incidents caused temperature spikes and spoiled food at stores in Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Estonia. It follows a similar cyberattack in France last month.
What the coverage shows
Most outlets converge on the same basic frame: supermarket fridges and freezers across Europe were hit by a fresh round of cyberattacks that caused temperature spikes and spoiled food. NBC News and BBC News cast this as a broader multi-country wave, while AP narrows its lead to Sweden and Tom’s Hardware focuses on freezers as the target. Channel 4 News and The Guardian US are the only ones to foreground UK implications, with Channel 4 citing GCHQ alerts and The Guardian saying food suppliers in the UK were hit.
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