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Insights12 October 2026

Britain's exposed controllers: a UK exposure report after the French fridge attack

After Sunday's cyberattack on French supermarket refrigeration, we turned the same question on the UK. Over 800 internet-exposed refrigeration and building-management controllers answer directly to the open internet here, across Danfoss, Carel, Copeland and other vendors, and that figure is a floor rather than a ceiling. Here is what we found, why France was hit and not Britain, and what to do this week.

Peter Bassill10 min read · 4 reads

Insights12 October 2026

Cyberattack defrosts the fridges at hundreds of French supermarkets

Overnight on 11–12 October 2026, attackers reached into the refrigeration controllers of several hundred French supermarkets and switched the fridges and freezers into a defrost cycle that never ended. Intermarché, Coopérative U, Carrefour and Leclerc lost their chilled and frozen stock, the Paris prosecutor has opened an investigation, and the equipment at the centre of it is sitting on the open internet in the UK too.

Peter Bassill12 min read · 4 reads