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'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack

Dozens of supermarkets in seven European countries dumped huge quantities of food after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 2 sources•1 min read•Updated November 3, 2026, 1:07 PM UTC

The temperature of freezers in several shops across Europe reportedly rose to as high as 50C.

Supermarkets in countries including Ireland, Sweden and Belgium reported fridges being hiked in temperature on Monday.

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