Perhaps Connecting Fridges to the Internet Was a Bad Idea
Bags of frozen blueberries and Swedish meatballs, packets of waffles and pizzas, and tub after tub of ice cream: all melted, floppy, spoiled, and stinking. This has been the scene at grocery stores across Europe after their fridges and freezers have been hacked.
Last month, employees at hundreds of supermarkets in France came into work to find they had to trash millions of dollars’ worth of food.