150 degrees in the cold store – hackers are now also attacking a butcher shop in Bavaria

Cybercriminals have manipulated several cold stores at a butcher's shop in the Upper Palatinate, thereby causing a great deal of damage. The perpetrators changed the temperature setting on Monday night so that the cold stores heated up to 150 degrees, as the police headquarters in Regensburg announced.

According to current investigations, the butcher shop in the Bavarian district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab suffered five-figure damage. The cyber attack was discovered in time so that greater damage could be avoided, the police said. The incident may be related to further cyber attacks on supermarket cooling systems in Europe on the night of November 2nd.

Cooling systems heated to 30 to 50 degrees

In Lower Saxony, the cold chain of a supermarket in Lilienthal near Bremen was temporarily paralyzed. “We had to throw away goods worth over 360,000 euros,” said owner Daniel Breiding. In the supermarket, service counters, cold stores and freezers failed on Monday night. The systems heated up to 30 degrees, in Reisbach in Lower Bavaria it was even 50 degrees. A food processing company and a supermarket in the Kaiserslautern and Kusel districts were also affected, the West Palatinate police headquarters said.