{"id":1046312,"date":"2026-11-02T07:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046312"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:56:16","slug":"from-california-to-rhode-island-us-military-bases-hit-by-mysterious-freezer-failures-as-pentagon-probes-possible-link-to-french-supermarket-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/02\/from-california-to-rhode-island-us-military-bases-hit-by-mysterious-freezer-failures-as-pentagon-probes-possible-link-to-french-supermarket-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"From California to Rhode Island, US military bases hit by mysterious freezer failures as Pentagon probes possible link to French supermarket cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2026, multiple military bases across the US reported issues with freezers malfunctioning and food spoiling in base commissaries. Now, the Pentagon has decided to launch a probe into whether the malfunctions were actually a coordinated cyberattack that were similar to recent attack against French supermarkets. <\/p>\n<p>In October, hundreds of French supermarkets were massively hit by a cyber attack that caused their fridges and freezers to heat up, spoiling fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros. The hackers gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight, according to one supermarket chain affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2026, multiple military bases across the US reported issues with freezers malfunctioning and food spoiling in base commissaries. Now, the Pentagon has decided to launch a probe into whether the malfunctions were actually a coordinated cyberattack that were similar to recent attack against French supermarkets. In October, hundreds of French supermarkets were massively hit by a cyber attack that caused their fridges and freezers to heat up, spoiling fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros. The hackers gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046333,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046312\/revisions\/1046333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}