After supermarket refrigerators, hackers attack blood banks in France
A wave of cyberattacks targeting commercial and industrial refrigeration systems across Europe has expanded beyond grocery stores to strike France’s critical healthcare infrastructure. The French Blood Establishment (EFS) confirmed on Wednesday (November 4) that cold storage units housing vital blood products were remotely compromised in a cyber incident that began on Monday. Attackers breached refrigeration systems across three EFS sites, tampering with automated settings to drive temperatures excessively high.
Despite the intrusion, the agency confirmed that internal monitoring tripped immediately, preventing any loss of blood supplies or harm to public health, as per a report by CNBC.
