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Pentagon is treating mysterious freezer failures that spoiled food at six US military bases as a suspected cyberattack

A supermarket freezer controller and defrost-schedule panel of the kind used in French commercial stores, where a near-identical attack to the US military incident saw freezer temperatures cranked to 50C overnight.
A supermarket freezer controller and defrost-schedule panel of the kind used in French commercial stores, where a near-identical attack to the US military incident saw freezer temperatures cranked to 50C overnight.

Cyber Command and the US Army Criminal Investigation Division are both probing the August incident, in which freezer temperatures at on-base stores were cranked up overnight, destroying food — rather than simply shutting down. Pentagon investigators are working with French law enforcement after a near-identical cyberattack hit commercial supermarket freezers in France earlier this month.

At least six on-base commissaries across the US were hit, with Fort Huachuca, Arizona, reporting its unit "went into defrost mode where it heated up all the food."

Cyber Command confirmed it is "working in close coordination with interagency and law enforcement partners" but gave no further detail on suspects or conclusions.

No group has been named as responsible; how far the investigation has advanced has reportedly not been determined.

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