Several dozen Belgian, Luxembourg and Swedish supermarkets were victims between Sunday evening and Monday morning of an “unprecedented” cyberattack targeting their refrigeration installations. Similar attacks occurred on October 12 in France.

Published on: 02/11/2026 - 12:26Modified on: 02/11/2026 - 13:50

After France, it is the turn of Belgium, Sweden and Luxembourg to be victims of a cyberattack on refrigerators and freezers. The Belgian-Dutch distributor Ahold Delhaize announced on Monday, November 2, that a “computer incident” had affected refrigerators and freezers in dozens of its supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg, said group spokesperson Sarah De Meester.

Like an incident which affected hundreds of French supermarkets almost three weeks ago, the supermarket chain noticed an increase in temperatures within the refrigeration systems, she said. The company is currently investigating this incident.

For their part, Swedish retailers ICA and Coop reported similar incidents, with one of the affected stores attributing it to a cyber attack.

50 degrees Celsius

Problems were also reported to have occurred last night at several stores of the Swedish supermarket chain ICA.

A Swedish store clarified on social networks that the temperature of its refrigerators and freezers had been set to 50 degrees Celsius, following the example of the hacking of refrigeration systems that occurred in France.

“We are aware that a limited number of stores were affected by an incident last night, which affected their refrigeration and freezing systems,” an ICA spokesperson said by email.

The cyberattack affecting hundreds of supermarkets in France led them to throw away tons of food contained in the hacked refrigerators.

With Reuters

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