Food sales companies in Europe are the target of cyber attacks. Britain is on alert to protect Tesco and Sainsbury’s fridges amid cyber attacks on similar fridges across Europe

🚨 NEW: Britain is on alert to protect Tesco and Sainsbury's fridges amid cyber attacks on similar fridges across Europe

Hackers are remotely accessing them and turning temperatures up to as high as 80C pic.twitter.com/kQqyqSos82

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) November 2, 2026

In dozens of supermarkets across several European countries, a huge amount of food has been dumped after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack. Read more: https://t.co/gWYpVpasGH pic.twitter.com/Wr3OXX8ZWk

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 2, 2026