A woman walks past empty fresh-food refrigerators at an Intermarché supermarket in Névez, western France, on October 12 following a cyberattack.
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France has blamed Iran for last month’s supermarket fridge cyberattack which spoiled produce at around 700 retailers, and vowed to slap sanctions on Tehran in response.

“This was an attack of unprecedented scale and unprecedented aggressiveness,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told reporters Monday, describing it as the first large-scale cyberattack carried out for sabotage purposes on French national territory.