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Epidemic of Hacked Freezers Spreads Across Europe

Decrypt3 November 2026, 17:04 UTC

A suspected hacking wave has pushed supermarket freezers into defrost mode across ten European countries, with temperatures reportedly hitting 50°C. Nobody knows who's behind it or why it spread.

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