Military investigating refrigerator and freezer outages affecting commissaries as possible cyber attack

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The Pentagon is investigating a series of freezer and refrigerator malfunctions at various military installations as a possible cyberattack.

The Army Criminal Investigation Division’s Cyber Field Office, the Defense Commissary Agency, and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service launched the investigation to “determine the full extent of what occurred with the refrigeration units in the commissaries on military installations,” a spokesperson for Army CID told the Washington Examiner.

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