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'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack

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BBC'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack
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Dozens of supermarkets in seven European countries dumped huge quantities of food after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack.

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