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Three weeks after the attack on French supermarkets, refrigeration controllers at food stores in several more countries started running at wrong temperatures overnight into November 2. Reports name ICA and Coop in Sweden, Delhaize, Carrefour and Spar stores in Belgium, 13 SuperValu stores in Ireland, Ahold Delhaize stores in Luxembourg, a few K-Food stores in Finland and one Selver store in Estonia. In the Netherlands, Danfoss told broadcaster NOS that at least 17 businesses were hit, mostly butchers and small neighborhood shops, and Albert Heijn said none of its branches was affected. One Swedish store had a freezer set to 50 degrees Celsius and another showed 55, some Delhaize fridges reached 15, and a Dutch frozen-food store was at minus 10 instead of minus 20. Belgian refrigeration firm Sabcobel confirmed a cyberattack, and its chief executive said the units' evaporators were switched into defrost mode. AFP reports that many units will need physical modifications to be restored. Danfoss said the European incidents involved its products, as in France, and NOS reports Copeland equipment was also hit in Belgium. DutchNews reports that the affected Dutch systems were not on a secure network and still used a default password, and that Danfoss had advised Dutch customers on October 13 to disconnect systems from the internet. Coop confirmed a hack, Ahold Delhaize called it an IT incident, Musgrave called it a cyber incident, and ICA did not confirm a cyberattack. Sweden's national cyber security center is handling several cases. No group has claimed responsibility, reporting finds no evidence yet linking these cases to the French attack or to the US military base freezer failures, and Delhaize says it is investigating whether its case is linked to the group's October cyberattack.