France blames Iran for October supermarket cyberattack
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has blamed the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the cyberattack on France’s supermarket fridges, an incident that occurred in October. The attack affected fridges in hundreds of stores nationwide.
France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot says the Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corp is behind the "unprecedented" cyber attacks on supermarket fridges as he vows to press for Europe-wide sanctions.
French foreign minister vows European sanctions against Tehran over ‘unprecedented’ hacks last month Europe live – latest updates France has said Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were behind “unprecedented” cyber-attacks on supermarket fridges in the country last month, vowing European sanctions against Tehran. “I can confirm that this attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said on Monday of the hacks on 11 and 12 October.
France on Monday said Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were behind “unprecedented” cyberattacks on supermarket fridges in the country last month, vowing sanctions on a European level against Tehran. “I can confirm that this attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said of the cyberattacks.
Antonio Tajani has said hackers published personal data stolen from him as Giorgia Meloni blamed pro-Russia criminals for the incident. The news follows a string of bomb threats that have grounded flights across the EU.
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