'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack
'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack.
'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack.
What happened
In supermarkets throughout a number of European countries, a massive amount of food has been dumped after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack.
Belgium and Luxemburg saw some of the worst damage, with 40 Delhaize supermarkets affected, with incidents additionally taking place in stores in Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland.
In a branch of supermarket Delhaize in Hoeilaart, just outside Belgian capital of Brussels, the BBC's Europe correspondent Nick Beake discovered frozen pizzas and ice cream among a mountain of food having to be scrapped – with this branch estimating the cost of the damage running to more than €100, 000 (£83, 500).
The bottom line
For now, ' All this food is now useless' : Piles of rubbish after shop freezers remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.
