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700 facilities across France were targeted by hackers who cranked the temperature to as high as 122 F, ruining millions of euros of food and prompting panic and questions.
Hackers heated refrigerators at Intermarché, Carrefour, Monoprix and Coopérative U to 50°C overnight, spoiling food and sparking fires in France.
From refrigerators going offline in France to empty shelves in Britain, cyber attacks are already wreaking havoc on the food supply chain. Could a big enough one give us empty shelves? Hannah Twiggs investigates how vulnerable our food really is – and whether we