No joke, yes they did. The markets hit here in Sweden are all in rural communities with very low number of tech workers. They likely order their system from a supplier, that should have alerted them and helped them, but apparently did nothing.

Imagine they where internet exposed due to simplicity. It will take longer than three weeks to set this up. Not for you but imagine you are a store owner with 0 IT knowledge.

The issue is this needs to be handled centrally by the parent org also. They have IT of course but they usually do POS and desktops/servers.

The OT/SCADA systems are usually totally separate and not touched by the white collar IT systems.

The bizarre thing is it is the second time for Delhaize, although the incident of two weeks ago was related to the pricing system.

After the PHP vulnerability, we got some clients asking if our SaaS product used PHP (it didn't). It's possible that they just contacted their vendor, who assured them that everything was fine.