{"id":3864,"date":"2026-11-05T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2026-11-05T14:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:03:51","slug":"french-blood-banks-hit-alongside-cyberattack-on-european-supermarkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3864","title":{"rendered":"French blood banks hit alongside cyberattack on European supermarkets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The refrigerators at three regional blood banks in France were hit by a cyberattack overnight between Sunday and Monday, at <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/retail-consumer\/temperature-soars-swedish-grocery-store-freezers-one-store-blames-hackers-2026-11-02\/\">the same \u200btime<\/a> hackers struck supermarkets from Sweden to Belgium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral regional facilities \u200bof the French Blood Establishment (EFS) were affected by a cybersecurity \u2060incident that impacted certain cold storage room monitoring and control systems,\u201d \u200bthe health ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The incident had no impact on \u200bblood supplies, EFS spokesperson Charley Dubois said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have staff round the clock since blood can be needed at any time. They were warned about the problems by alerts \u200band moved the blood to other refrigerators that were not connected,\u201d \u200bshe said.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, hackers tampered with refrigerators at <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/retail-consumer\/temperature-soars-swedish-grocery-store-freezers-one-store-blames-hackers-2026-11-02\/\">stores<\/a> in eight European countries, \u200cforcing \u2060retailers to discard large quantities of food, in an attack that echoed an incident affecting dozens of supermarkets in France three weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The situation was under control on Wednesday, the health ministry said, adding that remote \u200baccess to the \u200baffected refrigerators had \u2060been disabled.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are under way into how the attack was carried out, what equipment may have been affected \u200band when systems can safely return to service.<\/p>\n<p>The attack \u200bfollowed \u2060a <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/investigators-hunt-french-supermarket-fridge-hackers-no-claim-responsibility-2026-10-13\/\">similar incident in France last month<\/a> when police said hackers seized control of cooling units at hundreds of supermarkets, causing fires and food losses.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents \u2060have \u200braised concerns in the European Union about unsuspected \u200bvulnerabilities in connected infrastructure amid growing security tensions since Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The refrigerators at three regional blood banks in France were hit by a cyberattack overnight between Sunday and Monday, at the same \u200btime hackers struck supermarkets from Sweden to Belgium. \u201cSeveral regional facilities \u200bof the French Blood Establishment (EFS) were affected by a cybersecurity \u2060incident that impacted certain cold storage room monitoring and control systems,\u201d \u200bthe health ministry said in a statement. The incident had no impact on \u200bblood supplies, EFS spokesperson Charley Dubois said. \u201cWe have staff round the clock since blood can be needed at any time. 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