There is no reason for this stuff to be connected to the internet.
From CNBC, November 4:
Blood banks targeted in latest European fridge cyberattacks
- Blood banks have become the latest target of cyberattacks on fridges across Europe, the French Blood Establishment confirmed Wednesday.
- Cold storage units with blood products were remotely hacked, with temperatures raised excessively.
- EFS said no blood products were lost and no health impact was identified after alarms detected the anomalies quickly.
French blood banks were on Monday affected by the recent wave of cybersecurity attacks on European refrigeration systems, the French Blood Establishment confirmed on Wednesday.
The organization said that while it wasn’t the direct target of the attack, cold storage units operated by external providers containing the EFS’ blood products were compromised across three of its sites, with hackers cranking up temperatures.
“Specifically, temperature and defrost thresholds were set to excessively high levels,” the EFS said in a statement translated from French to English by CNBC.
“These cold storage units—located at EFS preparation and distribution sites—are used to store blood products prior to their delivery to healthcare facilities, as well as samples intended for EFS biobanks.”
They also stored frozen plasma used for transfusions the manufacturing of medicinal products.
The EFS said that its surveillance systems were triggered rapidly, and depending on the situation, affected equipment was either brought under control with no impact on the products or samples, or they were taken offline. No samples or blood products were lost during the attack, with samples quickly transferred to other facilities, the EFS added....
....MUCH MORE
As noted after the second attack on grocery store coolers:
"Frozen part II: Hackers remotely defrost produce in Euro supermarkets ... again"
The cooler/chiller companies better get this under control....
The life-saving/life-changing miracle of refrigeration is taken for granted. Big mistake
If interested see also:
July 2024 - "...Refrigeration and the Many Virtues of the Cold Chain"Cold, very important. For me and for the world....
And why were we so interested? Money.
As mentioned some years ago:
June 3, 2019
Logistics: Big Money For Warehouses, Looking at Cold Storage.
...This next bit brings back some memories. My second stock to double was a cold storage company, actually a dairy with a cold storage operation that was valued at about one-quarter of comparables. I started chipping away at the float and before I got anywhere near enough stock, the management, who knew full well the value of the operation, did an LBO and took it private at 2x market and ended up generating cash-on-cash returns (for themselves) of around 40% per annum for a decade or so.
Bastards.
That led us into being on the right side of the the whole pandemic need for storage and particularly cold storage. Another example of how just being in the right place at the right time can make this whole investing thing so much easier:
June 6, 2019
"It's About To Become A Hot Market For Cold Storage Facilities"—CBRE
March 30, 2020
"Coronavirus: Panic buying sparks surge in flexible storage demand"
April 27, 2020
The UK Food Situation Is Going to Get Interesting
From Reuters:
World's biggest cold storage supplier could reach full UK capacity in three weeks.....
If interested see also January 2019's "Logistics of Cold"
That essay mentions an apple farmer, Barbara Pratt. She's also Maersk's
director of refrigerated technical services.
Maersk thinks pretty highly of her, giving her a page on the website: THE QUEEN OF COOL.
Unfortunately, when the cybercrooks attacked Maersk it was lost—you now
get a "subdomain takeover" notice so, if interested here she is saved at
the Internet Archive page.
Buying Warehouses In Europe and China
It was rather lonely in 2019 when we were pitching warehouses and cold storage facilities but by December 2020 we were posting stuff like:
Real Estate: "Logistics market is hot, but is a bubble forming?"
It's always nice to see a sector you've been babbling about for a couple years finally referred to as a bubble....
Good times.
