French officials accused Iran of orchestrating Cyberattack on Freezers.
Refrigeration systems had failed at commissaries at U.S. military facilities this summer, spoiling food and temporarily limiting supplies. In October, freezers malfunctioned at hundreds of grocery stores in France in what officials called a cyberattack. On Nov. 2, retailers in at least seven more European countries reported problems with refrigeration units. A week later, French officials accused Iran of orchestrating the attack.
According to The New York Times, the U.S. Army said in early November that its cyber investigators were looking into the issue.
On Aug. 26, freezers at a market in Fort Huachuca, an Army base in Arizona, suddenly went into defrost mode, according to a Facebook post from the base. All the food in those freezers was spoiled. At least five other U.S. military bases abruptly switched into heating or defrost modes overnight in late August 2026, ruining entire inventories of frozen food.
The Army’s Criminal Investigative Division separately confirmed to The Times that its Cyber Field Office was looking into what happened at the commissaries — and working with French law enforcement agencies “in understanding the refrigeration outages in Europe.”
More than 700 supermarkets across France were targeted, laying to waste large stocks of frozen produce. A Danish software system used by the supermarkets to control temperatures remotely of refrigeration equipment was breached during the attacks.
The attack in France last month targeted systems made by three manufacturers whose units were remotely controlled. Danfoss, one of the manufacturers, said that most of the affected units were older and did not have software updates that many manufacturers now use to secure their systems.
No illnesses or foodborne outbreaks have been reported resulting from the cyberattack
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