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France investigates cyberattack that overheated supermarket refrigeration systems

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 28 57 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 12 Oct 18:28 UTC · Cyberattack heats French supermarket refrigerators, spoiling food and causing fires 13 Oct 12:14 UTC · French investigators hunt hackers after supermarket refrigeration attack 13 Oct 18:13 UTC · Hackers Manipulate Refrigeration Systems at Hundreds of French Supermarkets 14 Oct 12:14 UTC · Hackers manipulate refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets 15 Oct 12:18 UTC · France investigates cyberattack that overheated supermarket refrigeration systems

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 5 HEADLINES

  1. 12 Oct, 18:28 UTC

    Cyberattack heats French supermarket refrigerators, spoiling food and causing fires

  2. 13 Oct, 12:14 UTC

    French investigators hunt hackers after supermarket refrigeration attack

  3. 13 Oct, 18:13 UTC

    Hackers Manipulate Refrigeration Systems at Hundreds of French Supermarkets

  4. 14 Oct, 12:14 UTC

    Hackers manipulate refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets

  5. 15 Oct, 12:18 UTC

    France investigates cyberattack that overheated supermarket refrigeration systems

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Dominique Schelcher · 6 outlets
  • Thierry Cotillard · 2 outlets

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • its supermarkets: 80 (2 from 12 Oct 17:42) → 100 (1 from 13 Oct 13:08)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.