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Europe hit by another wave of grocery store freezer hacks

Dozens of grocery stores across Europe have reported rising temperatures in some of their refrigeration systems, with some retailers calling it a cyberattack while another called it an "IT incident."

The incidents in Sweden, Belgium, and Estonia unfolded on Sunday night and come weeks after a hack on fridges and freezers in France that forced supermarkets to throw away food.

"Unauthorized actors were able to access and tamper with the cooling systems at a small fraction of our stores," a spokesperson at Swedish supermarket chain Coop confirmed to Business Insider.

They said that seven out of its more than 800 stores were affected overnight and into Monday.

"The situation is currently contained and under control," they added.

Gustaf Nilsson, spokesperson for ICA Sverige, another Swedish…

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