Hackers Target France's National Blood Bank Through Its Cold Storage
Hackers hit French national blood bank
Attackers breached France's national blood bank by going after its refrigeration systems, raising the temperature of cold storage rooms. It is the latest in a wave of cyberattacks on temperature-controlled facilities across Europe, exposing how connected cooling equipment has become a soft entry point into critical health infrastructure.
Hackers have targeted France's national blood bank, raising the temperature of its cold storage rooms.
- RobotToaster
Fridges shouldn't be on the internet, doubly so when it's one storing vital medical supplies.
- erremerre
I think this is probably something good to happen because what it is not normal, is that a company, any company, can sell you a half assed product, call it End Of Life with flagrant issues still happening, clean their hands, and leave you with the problem or having to buy another product, with the environmental cost of it plus the economical cost of it.
And the only solution, it is to enforce company to offer updates and support a product for at least half a century, and enforce that any code of that product must become available and modifiable in case the company is unable to provide with such support.
If that means that company produce less products, so it is. I am tired as a consumer of having to throw away completely good products just for this reason, from ASUS routers, to car. Hopefully whatever legislation that happens to solve this situation with the industry will also affect consumer products (or at least, we could adquire industrial products instead).
- kristjank
Not only freezers, but a lot of other appliances have become IoT-integrated to simplify inspection procedures. Instead of the health department looking at each freezer/smoke detector/gas detector/emergency floodlight individually, you can just present them with a report from your building's safety system. Older systems were mostly some industrial bus and are off-grid by default, but new ones are usually smarter, and as a result, IP-connected.
- harrouet
Hard to imagine something more unethical than that.
- jakub_g
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