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I Read the FBI's New Warning. It Started on 7 Military Bases.

What This One's About

I think we're looking at coordinated sabotage aimed at the systems that keep our food safe, and I suspect the failures on our own military bases are part of it.

At least seven American base commissaries had refrigeration outages in August. Fort Huachuca said its freezers went into defrost mode and heated the food. Then about 700 supermarkets were affected in France. Then more than 100 stores across Europe this week. On November 5, the FBI, CISA, and three other federal agencies put out a joint warning about attacks on industrial refrigeration.

Think about what that means. You can have electricity, working roads, and a grocery store that's open, and still lose the food inside. The power stayed on. That's a food-security problem, and I think we're taking it far too lightly.

The coordination call is my assessment of the evidence. Investigators haven't announced a common perpetrator, and I say so in the video. But the clustering, the repeated method, and the attacks continuing after the first warnings are why I got there, and I'd rather plan around it than wait for the final criminal case.

/Chapters(31)

Each timestamp opens the video at that point on YouTube.

  1. 0:00My assessment: coordinated sabotage, and our bases are part of it
  2. 0:11The scale: 7 commissaries, ~700 French stores, 100+ across Europe
  3. 0:24Fort Huachuca: freezers into defrost mode
  4. 0:40Power on. Roads open. Store open. Food gone.
  5. 1:15Military Times names the seven bases
  6. 1:38F.E. Warren: the 90th Missile Wing, and its commissary
  7. 2:10Fort Huachuca, August 26: the base's own account
  8. 2:23"A suspected hack": Reuters, Army CID, and the French investigation
  9. 2:46Government lost food before it warned everybody else
  10. 3:09Why I think these attacks are connected
  11. 3:33My assessment, and what investigators haven't announced
  12. 4:00Working equipment. Ruined food.
  13. 4:19Stockholm, 2 a.m.: "Everything is destroyed."
  14. 4:35Food and beverage most of my life: the part that sticks with me
  15. 5:16Carrefour: hit in France, then hit again in Belgium
  16. 5:32ICA: 23 stores connected outside the central network
  17. 5:48The owner who was mid-upgrade when they hit him
  18. 6:06Who owns that gap?
  19. 7:04"Limited impact", for the company. Not for the customer.
  20. 7:40Then there's the blood storage: 3 sites, no products lost
  21. 8:46Temperature is food safety. So is the access.
  22. 9:26November 5: five agencies, one warning
  23. 10:06Secure the access, update the equipment, monitor it, and prove it got done
  24. 10:50How this could hurt your family (illustrative scenario, not a forecast)
  25. 11:53A method that works gets copied
  26. 12:33Backup power at home: what it can and can't do
  27. 12:55The part you can control
  28. 13:34Know the temperature. Don't guess. Don't taste it.
  29. 14:02Where I land: a serious, connected food-security threat
  30. 14:26What I want from the companies, and from government
  31. 15:26Your assessment: coordinated, or not?

/Sources & Receipts(16)

Everything cited in the video, so you can read it yourself instead of taking my word for it.

The warning

Our own bases

Europe

The blood storage

At home

Where I'm Coming From

"Coordinated" and "connected" are my assessment, not an official finding, nobody has announced a common perpetrator, and investigators haven't established that even the two European waves are linked. The seven commissaries are a reported outage list; the defrost/heating behavior is documented at Fort Huachuca, not confirmed at all seven, and the Pentagon hasn't confirmed a cyber cause. The 700 and the 100+ are separate estimates, not one audited total. The Carrefour CEO line is paraphrased from third-party transcripts. The blood-service incident was at a supplier, and nothing was lost. The regional example near the end is a scenario, not a reported U.S. event. Two weeks of food is a Red Cross preparedness target, not a forecast for this or any attack.

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