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France blood bank cyberattack hits cold storage refrigeration systems
Fox Business • • business
Key Points:
- Hackers targeted refrigeration systems at three regional blood banks in France, affecting cold storage monitoring but not blood supplies, as staff quickly moved products to unaffected refrigerators.
- The French Health Ministry disabled remote access to compromised systems and is investigating the attack, which coincided with similar cyberattacks disrupting supermarket refrigeration systems across eight European countries.
- Previous attacks in France forced major supermarket chains to discard large amounts of spoiled food due to manipulated refrigeration temperatures reaching as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In the U.S., military commissaries experienced refrigeration failures under investigation by Army cyber units, raising concerns about the vulnerability of critical food supply systems to cyberattacks.
- Security experts warn that such cyberattacks on essential services, currently seen in Europe, could also occur in the United States, potentially disrupting food and medical supply chains.
