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Europe's fridge and blood bank hacks spread

A cyberattack on European supermarket fridges spread across the continent on Monday, hitting stores from Sweden to Belgium and forcing food waste, with a previous attack in France noted, Korea Times reports. Hackers may have gained access through public internet-connected systems with default passwords or outdated software, per Korea Times. The attack then extended to French blood management facilities, where equipment temperatures were pushed to extremely high levels, Yonhap and Kyunghyang report. Korean outlets are covering the incidents as a warning about internet-connected industrial equipment weaknesses, with Kyunghyang describing the attack as '너무나 아찔한' (very thrilling) and noting the escalation from supermarket fridges to blood storage facilities.

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