Cyberattack affected 80 stores of French supermarket chain Co-Operative U

View of the closed frozen food aisle at a supermarket near Nantes after a cyberattack targeted refrigeration systems at French supermarket chains, causing food losses and fires at several stores, France, October 12, 2026. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

PARIS, Oct ⁠13 (Reuters) - French supermarket ⁠chain Co-Operative U ‌had 80 of its stores - out of an ​overall group total ⁠of 2,000 - ⁠affected by this week's cyberattack, ⁠said ‌company head Dominique Schelcher ⁠on Tuesday.

"It affected a ​minority ‌of our stores," he ⁠told ​RTL radio.

He said he could not ⁠precisely quantify the financial ​impact, but added that in a smaller ⁠store it would be several tens of thousands of euros, ​while in ⁠a bigger hypermarket ​the impact ‌could be up ​to €200,000($223,480).

($1 = 0.8949 euros)

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta)