November 10, 2026 — 11:10am

You didn’t need to be a cyber genius to cook the frozen peas in supermarkets across Europe this month.

On November 2, freezers in dozens of stores across at least 11 countries were cranked up remotely, some to 50 degrees. Carrefour and Ikea in Belgium, ICA and Coop in Sweden, Kesko in Finland and SuperValu in Ireland were among those hit. It was a repeat. Three weeks earlier, hackers had done the same to hundreds of French supermarkets.

Hundreds of supermarkets across France were struck in the first cyberattack. Twitter

Security agencies have been warning about this since 2014, when France’s cyber agency, ANSSI, first told operators never to put these controllers directly online.…