I can fathom the product losses from this one incident would outweigh all the imaginary reasons people tell themselves for why monitoring/connected/smart devices are useful in their work/home.
Definitely won’t stop anyone buying though is the saddest part.
There was also an, as far as is known, unrelated cyberattack on Dutch supermarket chain AH, which has had to suspend activity at some of its distribution centres.
I can fathom the product losses from this one incident would outweigh all the imaginary reasons people tell themselves for why monitoring/connected/smart devices are useful in their work/home.
Definitely won’t stop anyone buying though is the saddest part.
When a freezer stops working and nobody notices for a while, the food will spoil then, too.
If it were monitoring-only, rather than connected to the power, it would probably be fine.
It’s a supermarket, staff will be stocktaking, restocking, walking past A LOT.
There was also an, as far as is known, unrelated cyberattack on Dutch supermarket chain AH, which has had to suspend activity at some of its distribution centres.
I remember someone positing that something similar had happened to fridges on US army bases
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