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A new cold war: hackers target fridges across the globe November 3, 20265:00 AM ET

Jenna McLaughlin

Supermarket fridge hacks

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A woman walks past empty fresh-food refrigerators at an Intermarché supermarket in Névez, western France, on Oct. 12, following a cyberattack affecting the French supermarket chains Intermarché and Cooperative U that caused their refrigerators to defrost. Some 150 to 200 Intermarché stores were targeted in the attack on Oct. 12, along with nearly 100 Coopérative U outlets, the retailers said. Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption