The fridge was on the Internet
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On the night of 11 October someone switched on the defrost heaters in the refrigerated cabinets of a few hundred French supermarkets. With the food still inside. By morning the freezers read 50 °C, even more in Normandy, and in some stores the equipment had melted. The French finance minister spoke of roughly 700 stores out of 10,000; Les Mousquetaires, the group behind Intermarché, puts the damage in the tens of millions of euros.