30/10/2026
It started on a Sunday night.
By Monday 13 October, supermarkets across France were reporting refrigeration failures. Attackers had reached internet-connected control panels for fridges and freezers, the kind left online so maintenance firms can adjust them remotely. Some cases reached 50°C. Fresh and frozen stock was thrown out and, according to Intermarché's CEO, losses ran to tens of millions of euros in a single day.
On Tuesday, France's Finance Minister told Parliament that around 700 of the country's 10,000 supermarkets had been affected. The supplier, Danfoss, said most of the systems involved were legacy products that had stopped receiving updates.
The lesson isn't really about fridges. It's about the equipment nobody thinks of as IT: building management, access control, cameras, production lines. If it's connected, someone can reach it.
RackCorp Secure60 is built to catch the early signs: continuous security event monitoring, automated detection of misconfigurations that leave systems exposed, behavioural analysis that flags unusual logins, and threat intelligence on malicious IP addresses, with a 24/7 security operations centre watching.
If it is connected, it is part of the security perimeter.