BREAKING: European Union says Iran hacked cooling systems in 700 supermarkets in France, raising freezers and fridges as high as 80°C and spoiling massive amounts of food, declaring the EU will now impose sanctions on Iran.
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The attack also caused around 20 fires.
"I can confirm that this attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of the Islamic Republic of Iran," France's FM Barrot says.
"It marks the first large-scale cyberattack aimed at sabotage on our national territory, and it constitutes a major attack on the nation's interests and the security of the French people," he adds.
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BREAKING: European Union says Iran hacked cooling systems in 700 supermarkets in France, raising freezers and fridges as high as 80°C and spoiling massive amounts of food, declaring the EU will now impose sanctions on Iran.
The attack also caused around 20 fires.
"I can confirm that this attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of the Islamic Republic of Iran," France's FM Barrot says.
"It marks the first large-scale cyberattack aimed at sabotage on our national territory, and it constitutes a major attack on the nation's interests and the security of the French people," he adds.
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France has formally accused Iran’s IRGC terrorists of cyberattacks that disrupted supermarket refrigerators and freezers across the country last month.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said intelligence traced the attack to Shahid Kaveh, an offensive cyber unit under the IRGC’s Electronic and Cyber Center.
France has requested international arrest warrants for the unit’s head and two deputies.
Overnight on October 11–12, hackers breached internet-connected temperature controllers, activated defrost cycles, and raised temperatures to 40°C–50°C, spoiling millions of euros worth of food at major chains.
Similar attacks have since hit supermarkets in six other European countries, including the UK, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Estonia.