Username was admin, password automatically changed to the current date. Not so much a hack as bad cybersecurity. They were warned not expose the management interface to the internet. Vendor did a bad job, left the key under the mat.

Why are refrigerators Internet connected?

We need more smart devices…

What I want to know is what kind of refrigerator can even achieve 50c?

I guess the rest of the world is now questioning their decision to buy "smart" devices. It seems to me that businesses before tech were way less expensive to run and manage than post-tech capitalism with all of it's tricks, shenanigans and chicanery. The money they think they saved by replacing people with tech sounds like it wasn't worth it.

Bruh useless cyberattack that does no good for anybody. Not a political hack, remotely funny, or affect good change economically

I read some freezers went way past that and heated up to 80°C.

That seems enough to actually cook most of the stuff.

It seems like shooting themselves in the foot if the hackers don't have anywhere to buy food from

Stunt totally backfires when it turns all the milk into cheese.

Actually read the whole article and was disapointed (but not surprised) that there was zero explaination for why anyone thought a “remote defrost” capability was a good idea.

This is what you get for buying an internet connected "smart" freezer. Yeah, the internet is so smart. Ha.

Police say negotiations with perpetrators slowly thawing.

I pray the admonishers never get caught.