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  "id": 14056062,
  "title": "Cyberattack defrosts French supermarket freezers, spoiling food at 100s of stores",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/cyberattack-defrosts-french-supermarket-freezers-spoiling-food-at",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-12T21:51:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
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    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/france-supermarket-freezers-overheated-cyberattack-9.7378180"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Hackers raised the temperature of refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 50 C overnight, causing fires and spoiling food.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Hacker News",
        "title": "French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/french-supermarkets-suffer-fridge-shutdown-after-unprecedented",
        "published": "2026-10-12T15:36:21.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Semafor",
        "title": "Cyberattack destroys food at hundreds of French grocery stores",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/cyberattack-destroys-food-at-hundreds-of-french-grocery-stores",
        "published": "2026-10-12T22:26:17.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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