The Pentagon thinks someone HACKED the freezers on US military bases In August every freezer in the grocery store at Fort Huachuca Army base in Arizona went into defrost mode overnight and heated up all the food The base posted "Trust us when we say it was spoiled" on Facebook as at least five other bases lost their frozen food too Six weeks later hackers turned the freezers in 700 French supermarkets into ovens and kept them at 50°C (122°F) for six hours while the stores were closed One store in Normandy found its freezers sitting at 80°C the next morning At several stores the fridges got so hot they caught fire and set off the sprinklers Every supermarket freezer has a defrost setting that warms it up for about an hour to melt the ice The hackers stretched that to eight hours so the alarms would treat the heat as normal Each store runs all its fridges off one control box connected to the internet and many of the hacked boxes were too old to get security updates anymore Some of them were reportedly still using the password they came with from the factory Security firm Claroty later got Claude to break into one of these boxes in its lab in 28 minutes for about $6 using only info anyone can find online Last night the freezers at dozens of supermarkets in Sweden and Belgium started heating up too One store manager in Sweden walked in this morning to a flooded floor and a freezer showing 55°C Someone cooked the frozen food in 700 supermarkets with a defrost button and still hasn't asked for a single euro My honest guess is the freezers were practice and whoever is behind this isn't done