French officials believe Iran was behind nationwide cyberattacks on commercial refrigeration units at hundreds of grocery stores in October, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday, accusing a cyber unit of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of carrying out the costly hacks. The Oct. 11 hacking attack struck major supermarket chains, hitting “700 retail locations…
A cyberattack on several blood banks tried to raise temperatures to extremely high levels but was thwarted before it could do any damage to blood products or samples, French authorities said. The incident comes after supermarkets in a number of European countries reported that their fridges and freezers warmed up after they were remotely taken…
Grocery store chains in at least three European countries reported unexpected temperature spikes Monday in refrigerators and freezers that ruined food — the second time in less than a month that similar incidents have raised concerns about cyberattacks on increasingly interlinked infrastructure. Netherlands-based food retailer Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt in Belgium both said an IT incident…
DoorDash said Thursday that it will buy Instacart for $17 billion, uniting one of the nation’s top grocery delivery services with a major food delivery company. DoorDash, which will pay $65 per share for Instacart, said the acquisition will benefit communities by enabling more supermarkets to use Instacart’s platform to run their websites. “Instacart has…
Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security. Top retailers E. Leclerc, Intermarché and Cooperative U confirmed to AFP they suffered a cyberattack that…
A bear killed a man and seriously maimed a woman in their home in the outskirts of Mongolia’s capital, authorities said Thursday, warning that sightings of the animals have skyrocketed across the country this year. The man in his 40s and the woman in her 50s were attacked on Wednesday night in the Bayanzurkh district…
Moroccan police arrested at least 111 people on Saturday as they tried to enter Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, amid tightened security on both sides of the border after social media posts called for another mass migrant crossing. The attempted crossing came two weeks after more than 72,000 migrants surged into Ceuta, sparking tensions…
Two Michigan residents who had “significant underlying health conditions” have died after contracting cyclosporiasis, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday. State officials have been providing nearly daily updates over the past few weeks on the cyclospora outbreak, which has sickened thousands of people. Without going into further details, the health department…
