ICA and Coop Report Overnight Refrigeration Incidents

Swedish grocery chains ICA and Coop reported overnight refrigeration incidents at stores on November 2, with six Coop locations affected and ICA describing a limited number of its stores as involved. The reports did not establish that the Swedish incidents were cyberattacks or that they were connected to one another or to problems elsewhere in Europe. ICA said the overnight incident affected refrigeration and freezer systems at a limited number of stores. Coop told a Swedish newspaper that six of its stores had experienced similar incidents. The companies’ accounts were reported through statements and comments; the cause of the Swedish problems was not confirmed. One Swedish store said in a social-media post that the settings for its refrigerators and freezers had been raised to 50 degrees Celsius. That figure described the equipment setting, not a measured temperature inside the units. At least one store blamed a cyberattack, but that attribution has not been independently established for the wider set of Swedish incidents. Separately, Ahold Delhaize said an IT incident affected refrigeration and freezer systems at dozens of its supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg. The...