Travelling story
Cyberattack on French supermarket refrigeration systems
First seen in Austria’s press on 12 October 2026. Carried by 12 presses over 2 days, 45 articles in all; the busiest day was 13 October 2026 with 29 articles.
Ended — carried by the press of 12 countries between 12 October 2026 and 13 October 2026.
Articles per day
The spread, day by day
For each day: the articles the presses gave it, and the presses that carried it for the first time that day.
- 29 articles · 12 presses so far
new: South Korea (3), Brazil (2), Netherlands (2), Turkey (2), United States (2)
- 16 articles · 7 presses so far
new: Austria (3), Romania (3), Czechia (2), France (2), Ghana (2), Poland (2), Serbia (2)
The presses that carried it
Ranked by articles over the whole story; the date is the first day each press carried it.
- France 12 articles · from 12 Oct 2026
- Austria 7 articles · from 12 Oct 2026
- Romania 7 articles · from 12 Oct 2026
- South Korea 3 articles · from 13 Oct 2026
- Czechia 2 articles · from 12 Oct 2026
- Ghana 2 articles · from 12 Oct 2026
- Poland 2 articles · from 12 Oct 2026
- Serbia 2 articles · from 12 Oct 2026
- Brazil 2 articles · from 13 Oct 2026
- Netherlands 2 articles · from 13 Oct 2026
- Turkey 2 articles · from 13 Oct 2026
- United States 2 articles · from 13 Oct 2026
What they wrote
A few headlines per day, in the outlets’ own words; the translation is ours when shown.
- South Korea · 13 Oct 2026 Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food ↗
- Romania · 13 Oct 2026 Unprecedented cyber attack on hypermarkets in Europe. Hundreds of refrigerated displays were set to heating, tons of food were destroyed ↗
- Austria · 13 Oct 2026 Cooling systems in supermarkets manipulated ↗
- France · 13 Oct 2026 Cyberattaque : des centaines de magasins victimes d'un piratage de leurs systèmes de réfrigération ↗
- France · 12 Oct 2026 TÉMOIGNAGE. "On a tout jeté" : une gérante d'un magasin raconte son désarroi après la cyberattaque qui a touché ses installations frigorifiques ↗
- Czechia · 12 Oct 2026 Hundreds of French supermarkets lost freezer functionality due to cyberattacks ↗
- Romania · 12 Oct 2026 Crisis in supermarkets in France after a cyber attack that blocked refrigeration systems ↗
- Austria · 12 Oct 2026 Freezer heated to 50 degrees – Cyber attack on supermarkets causes fires in France ↗
Topics are clustered daily from article embeddings across the outlets we read and chained day over day when their centroids match (cosine ≥ 0.80); a story is attributed to the press of each outlet’s country. Where it was first seen is where it first appeared in our feeds. Coverage, not truth; order of appearance, not origin or intent. Method →