{
  "id": 14236722,
  "title": "Cyber Risks Turn Physical When Hackers Control the Retail Thermostat",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/cyber-risks-turn-physical-when-hackers-control-the-retail-thermostat",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-13T15:32:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/2026/cyber-risks-turn-physical-when-hackers-control-retail-thermostat/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An unidentified hacking group, or several of them, wrought havoc across hundreds of European supermarkets this week. The root cause of the fiasco wasn’t stolen customer data. It was temperature control access. In an overnight cyberattack spanning Sunday (Oct. 11) and Monday (Oct. 12), attackers remotely manipulated refrigeration systems at French supermarket chains including Intermarché, […] The…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}