The Pentagon is treating a string of freezer malfunctions at U.S. military base commissaries in late August as a suspected cyberattack, according to four officials familiar with the matter. Investigators are working with officials in France where a widespread cyberattack on supermarket freezers caused millions of dollars worth of damage.
\n\nReuters reports that at least six base commissaries across the United States were affected, according to a Reuters review of Facebook posts and website updates from the bases. In at least one case, investigators found that someone had cranked freezer temperatures up overnight rather than the units simply failing, leaving food wilted and melted by morning.
\n\nAt Fort Huachuca in Arizona, the base’s Facebook account posted on August 26 that a freezer had “went into defrost mode where it heated up all the food. Trust us when we say it was ‘spoiled.'”
\n\nUS military investigators are now in contact with French counterparts about a similar cyberattack that struck commercial freezers in France earlier in October. That attack overrode temperature controls at more than 350 establishments and disrupted supermarkets nationwide. Some refrigeration units caught fire from the excessive heat. One supermarket owner estimated the total damage could reach tens of millions…
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