Cyber Risks Turn Physical When Hackers Control the Retail Thermostat
By PYMNTS
Source excerpt · PYMNTS
An unidentified hacking group, or several of them, wrought havoc across hundreds of European supermarkets this week. The root cause of the fiasco wasn’t stolen customer data. It was temperature control access. In an overnight cyberattack spanning Sunday (Oct. 11) and Monday (Oct. 12), attackers remotely manipulated refrigeration systems at French supermarket chains including Intermarché, […] The p…