U.S. officials suspect Iran-linked hackers may be behind a series of freezer malfunctions at military commissaries that spoiled food at around six installations beginning in late August, according to Nextgov/FCW, which cited two people familiar with the matter.
The reported assessment adds a possible attribution to the Pentagon’s investigation, which officials are treating as a suspected cyberattack. Neither the Pentagon nor the Army has publicly identified a suspect, and the assessment could change as investigators learn more.
The failures hit on-base grocery stores after refrigeration controls malfunctioned. At Fort Huachuca in Arizona, the installation said in an Aug. 26 Facebook post that a freezer went into defrost mode and heated its contents. According to Reuters, U.S. Cyber Command and the Army Criminal Investigation Division’s Cyber Field Office are involved, and investigators are coordinating with French authorities examining a separate attack on refrigeration systems at supermarkets in France.
Officials have not explained how the systems may have been accessed, and no public evidence has established that the U.S. and French incidents involved the same operators. The investigation is ongoing.
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