Hacked Danfoss fridges used 'admin' with password set to today's date
J_MaestreVidal · x · 2026-10-13
Refrigeration controllers in French supermarkets were hacked: username admin, password auto-rotating daily to... the current date, identical across all devices exposed to the internet. A documented auth bypass also exists — a POST to /xml.cgi skips login entirely.
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