🗞️ Story file #1253
Cyberattacks disrupt supermarket freezers across Europe
Nov 2, 8 AM ET to Nov 2, 4 PM ET
- 22outlets carried it
- 🫏10 · 6 · 6🐘left · center · right
- 8 hourson the front pages
- 22front pages at once, at its peak
- 9 minof TV captions
- 2radio newscasts
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Forbes 
News Nation 
Reuters 
Straight Arrow News 
Just the News 
The Epoch Times 
IJR 
New York Post 
Red State 
The National Desk
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- Nov 2, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: CBS News
- Nov 2, 9 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Nov 2, 9 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Nov 2, 3 PM ETpeak: on 22 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 Quoted
- “All this food is now useless”1
- “Everything Is Destroyed”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
📌 Linked by aggregators
1 Google News
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- BBC (4 wordings): “Shop freezers in six European countries hit by suspected cyber-attack” → “'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack”
- Business Insider (2 wordings): “Europe hit by another wave of suspected grocery store freezer hacks” → “Europe hit by another wave of grocery store freezer hacks”
- Financial Times (2 wordings): “European supermarket freezers hit just weeks after French cyber attack” → “European supermarket freezers overheat in fresh cyber attack”
- NBC News (2 wordings): “European supermarkets hit by new fridge cyberattack” → “Supermarkets across Europe hit by new fridge cyberattacks”
- Reuters (4 wordings): “European supermarkets hit by new fridge cyber attack” → “European retailers hit by supermarket fridge hack”
- The Guardian (3 wordings): “Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack” → “Who is hacking Europe’s supermarket fridges and freezers, and why?”
📰 Every outlet's headline 22left to right by AllSides rating
- HuffPost🕒 Nov 2, 11 AM ET
Freezers At Supermarkets In Several European Countries Hit By Apparent Cyberattacks
- The Daily Beast🕒 Nov 2, 1 PM ET
Mystery Cyberattack Targets Freezers in Stores Across Europe
- The Guardian🕒 Nov 2, 7 AM ET
Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
- ABC News🕒 Nov 2, 1 PM ET
Grocery store freezers hit in apparent cyberattack
- Axios🕒 Nov 2, 1 PM ET
Europe's fridges are getting hacked. Could America be next?
- Business Insider🕒 Nov 2, 7 AM ET
Europe hit by another wave of suspected grocery store freezer hacks
- CBS News🕒 Nov 2, 8 AM ET
More European grocery stores hit by apparent fridge-freezer hacks
- Los Angeles Times🕒 Nov 2, 11 AM ET
Cyberattacks hit supermarket freezers across Europe, threatening fresh and frozen food
- NBC News🕒 Nov 2, 7 AM ET
European supermarkets hit by new fridge cyberattack
- PBS NewsHour🕒 Nov 2, 11 AM ET
Freezers at supermarkets in several European countries hit by apparent cyberattacks, ruining food
- BBC🕒 Nov 2, 8 AM ET
Shop freezers in six European countries hit by suspected cyber-attack
- Financial Times🕒 Nov 2, 6 AM ET European supermarket freezers hit just weeks after French cyber attack
- Forbes🕒 Nov 2, 1 PM ET
New Wave Of Refrigerator Cyberattacks Roils European Supermarkets: ‘Everything Is Destroyed’
- News Nation🕒 Nov 2, 10 AM ET
Apparent cyberattacks target freezers and fridges in Europe
- Reuters🕒 Nov 2, 8 AM ET
European supermarkets hit by new fridge cyber attack
- Straight Arrow News🕒 Nov 2, 2 PM ET
Refrigeration systems in dozens more European grocery stores targeted in apparent cyberattack
- Just the News🕒 Nov 2, 3 PM ET
Hacking attack in Europe raised temps on refrigerators and freezers, forcing stores to toss food
- The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 2, 12 PM ET
Several European Supermarkets Reporting Disruptions Due to Cyber Attacks
- IJR🕒 Nov 2, 3 PM ET
Suspected cyberattacks spoil food at European supermarket chains
- New York Post🕒 Nov 2, 12 PM ET
Supermarket freezers in several European countries hit by apparent cyberattacks
- Red State🕒 Nov 2, 11 AM ET
Freezers Hacked, Food Ruined Across Europe
- The National Desk🕒 Nov 2, 1 PM ET
Suspected cyberattacks in seven European countries impact freezers in supermarkets
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
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📺 On TV
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📻 On the radio
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🎙️ On the shows
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🎙️🤷 No show matched to it yet.
🕵️ Investigated, joked about
🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
European UnionEuropean supermarketsCyber attackersEuropean countriesGrocery stores
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.