Blood-Bank Cyberattacks Make Our Blood Boil as European Foods Spoil

 

Hour 2 (11.04) Is Jimmy Eat World better than OK Go? The crew’s mostly team Jimmy, though Crozier’s not buying it. They also weigh in on Blink-182 and Green Day while noting pop punk is having a moment. Andy plays some listener TalkBacks and does more impersonations. Everyone agrees Nikki’s got the best voice in the building.  

How is the European freezer hack not bigger news? Hackers remotely cranked supermarket fridges and freezers across at least ten countries — Ireland, Estonia, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, and more — and spoiled millions of euros in food. It follows a bigger hit on roughly 700 French stores last month. Experts say it looks Russian-linked, US military commissaries in Europe may have been targeted, and French blood banks got hit too.  

In Tennessee, vintage guitars worth thousands were stolen in Chattanooga and turned up at Carter Vintage Guitars when someone tried to sell them. Staff got suspicious, called the cops, and one suspect using the fake name Nico Simpson was nabbed after leaving the instruments to be authenticated. In West Hollywood, people in polycules and other multi-partner setups can now register as a government-recognized domestic partnership as of today, though not at the same level as marriage. And in Myrtle Beach, a cop pulled a gun on another officer after someone heated fish in the work microwave. The crime was lunch. 

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