France supermarket hack marks new phase in Iran’s shadow war

Employees fill boxes of perished goods outside an Intermarche supermarket in Paris on Oct. 13, a day after a cyberattack targeted refrigeration systems at French supermarket chains, causing food losses and fires at several stores. | REUTERS

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Nov 11, 2026

Paris – The cyberattack on supermarket refrigerators that France has blamed on Iran marks a new phase in the asymmetric campaign Tehran is waging against the United States, extending it onto European soil, analysts say.

Scores of French supermarkets were hit in the Oct. 11-12 cyberattacks, which raised the temperatures in their refrigerators, in some cases forcing them to throw away entire inventories of perishable food.

France said Iran’s Revolutionary Guard was behind the “unprecedented” cyberattacks, a charge Iran rejected.

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