ParisIran’s Revolutionary Guards hacked 700 French supermarkets, prosecutors say.
The 11 October attack spoiled food and set off about 20 fires, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
Attackers took remote control through web interfaces, ran endless defrost cycles and disabled the temperature alerts.
Iranian authorities did not immediately respond, and no government has linked the Belgian, Luxembourg, Swedish or US incidents to it.
France summoned Iran’s ambassador, and prosecutors seek arrest warrants for the unit’s leader and 2 deputies.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 150+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- Middle East Eye
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- names the IRGC-linked Shahid Kaveh unit and reports arrest warrants for its leader and two deputies
- Aol leans critical
- adds the 700-store scale, the roughly twenty fires, and the August attacks on six US military bases' refrigeration
Sources: Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera Online, Aol