Supermarkets in Germany were targeted by cyber attacks

Similar cyber attacks on cooling systems in various European countries also occurred in a supermarket located in Wetter-Volmarstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, and operated by the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO). AWO's Regional Manager Sandra Salten stated that the cooling sections in the market and the cooling systems in the warehouse were affected by the attack.

Salten stated that the attack was not carried out directly on the market, but on the company that remotely maintains the cooling systems.

According to the German News Agency (DPA), two supermarkets in the cities of Wuppertal and Raesfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia were also affected by the attack.

In the news of public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, it was stated that a branch of the supermarket chain Edeka in the city of Reisbach, Bavaria, was also subjected to a cyber attack. The supermarket official stated that the cooling systems in the supermarket were put into "heating mode at 50 degrees" and that a large amount of products were destroyed.

CONSECUTIVE CYBER ATTACKS ACROSS EUROPE

Remote intervention in the cooling systems of markets in France on October 12 caused food losses. There were disruptions in the cooling and freezing systems of markets on November 2 in European countries including Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia.