French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe

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- Temperature and defrosting thresholds raised to ‘very high levels’ at three cold stores stocking vital blood products France’s national blood service has said hackers accessed control systems and boosted temperatures at three cold stores stocking vital blood products, in an apparent escalation of…
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- A supplier of the French National Blood Service was hit by a cyber-attack in which hackers turned cold rooms hosting blood samples up to 110°C (230°F)
- Three blood banks have detected and reversed a potentially destructive temperature spike in their cold rooms, following a cyberattack that targeted a refrigeration equipment provider of the French Blood Establishment (EFS), the only civilian blood collection and transfusion organization in France.…