The way some of these publicly listed companies work now they would "rather have" a cyber incident and claim the damages on insurance than hire engineers, because that looks worse on a quarterly report to have salaried workers.
replyWas the Albert Heijn outage due to the fridge issues as well?
replyPeople (and media) seem to regularly link the two, but there was never any confirmation and the issues that AH showed had nothing to do with store fridges. They took down a system responsible for stocking stores, fridges, registers, etc were still functional.
replyYou are right. That was never made public. They were hit on exactly the same day as the French hack of fridges and took what look like a forward looking step of taking a lot of infrastructure down.
replyThat does lead to harder things to think about. Multiple different attacks on EU supermarktes? Resilience? And then the questions I point to above: how hard is it for non tech firms to fix an emerging IT risk situation.