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Employees fill boxes of perished goods outside an Intermarche supermarket in Paris the day after a cyberattack targeted refrigeration systems at French supermarket chains, causing food losses and fires at several stores, France, Oct. 13, 2026. (Credit: Lucien Libert/ Reuters)
Add as preferred on Google During the night of Oct. 11-12, hackers remotely changed the temperature settings on refrigerators in hundreds of French supermarkets, including Intermarché, Système U, Carrefour and Monoprix. Several international manufacturers of temperature controllers are implicated, while the Paris prosecutor’s office reported food losses and fires. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.Barely nine days later, on Oct. 21, the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that underpins around 70% of the world’s websites, prompted businesses and governments, from Tokyo to Helsinki, to urgently suspend websites and services, including those used by banks and airlines, while applying security patches. Cloudflare, an online services provider, recorded millions of attempts to exploit the vulnerabilities within... You have reached your article limitStay informed about a Middle East in crisis.Subscribe for $0.5/month for the first 3 months. Subscribe now Log in This article is only available to L’Orient Today subscribers. Subscribe now Log in Create a free account to continue reading this article. You’ll also receive The Morning Brief, our must-read daily digest of Middle East news. Opt out anytime Email Address Password Email Address Password I would like to receive special offers from L'Orient Today as well as selections of the best articles. Register By creating an account, you agree to the terms and conditions of use and our privacy policy. Register Or register with: Facebook
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