I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

Since publication, Stars and Stripes, Military Times/Navy Times, and multiple others have independently reported on the multi-base refrigeration failures, with the Pentagon now acknowledging a "possible refrigeration disruption" at numerous De CA commissaries. Near-simultaneous refrigeration failures or significant issues impacting at least six military installations have now been confirmed through official sources during the last few days, with additional independent confirmation of multiple other incidents. Self-aware enough to know this sounds insane, but I need you to stick with me.

Not one freezer, not one grocery store, not just ANY grocery store, either. The refrigeration systems at military commissaries (tax-free grocery stores for military personnel and their families located on bases across the country) appear to be under some type of siege; either their own aging fleet of equipment is deciding to seppuku in perfect harmony, or by something (or someone) more nefarious. Where to even begin? Flipping through my normal rotation of social media, I started seeing scattered posts lamenting the commissary suddenly losing their entire refrigerated & frozen sections.

All cold food spoiled, or removed from shelves. Unfortunate and wasteful, I thought, but inconsequential to me personally. I don’t shop there, I have no stake in the availability of my frozen favs, plus the commissary is not exactly known for smoothly functioning operations, thus, moving on.

But then I saw another post, and another… with a chorus of comments huh, how odd, the same thing is happening here. What are the chances! The pattern caught my attention, and what followed was a deep dive into military social-media chatter, commercial refrigeration, defense procurement contracts, and network security refreshers in an attempt to resurrect the rudimentary cybersecurity knowledge my degrees required. ‘Twas never my strongest subject. When would I ever need to use this, I distinctly remember thinking. (Freezers didn’t have networks, in the olden days) At the time of initial publication, I identified 14 commissary refrigeration/freezer outage reports attributed to the following military installations across 11 states on August 26–27.

Subsequent additions denoted by asterisk, Reports later determined to be unsupported/unrelated remain struck through for transparency. Fort Huachuca (Confirmed)F. E.

Warren AFB (Confirmed)Fort Irwin (Confirmed)Columbus AFB (Confirmed)Naval Station Newport (Confirmed Aug. 26; Restored Aug. 29)*Travis AFB (Confirmed)NAS Lemoore (Independently Confirmed; Restored Aug. 28 per Commissary employee)*Port Hueneme (Independently Confirmed)Little Rock AFBDyess AFB (Independently Confirmed; Restored Aug. 29 per Commissary employee)Holloman AFBRobins AFB Mc Connell AFBCannon AFBFort Meade (Removed; operating normally per local as of Aug. 28)Camp Lejeune (Removed: official outage notice initially identified as current was actually from 2025)To be very clear: I do not have evidence that the Defense Commissary Agency was hacked. What does exist is evidence that something odd is happening, plus a whole lotta explanations for how a cyber incident of this magnitude is technologically possible, and that there may be much larger implications than a dearth of cold veggies. Unfamiliar to me prior, and I say that intending no offense to you (lovely, I'm sure) Fort Huachucans; the Cochise County, Arizona base has captured my attention today.

On August 27th, the official U.S. Army Fort Huachuca Facebook account announced that an overnight equipment failure caused ALL of the commissary’s freezers to enter defrost mode, spoiling everything inside. This wasn’t a case of simply a power flickering and ice cream melting, because someone commented just that. Fort Huachuca responded from its verified account:"the power didn’t go out"Another questioned whether all of the food was really "...

自发布以来，《星条旗报》、《军事时报》/《海军时报》及多家其他媒体独立报道了多基地的制冷系统故障，五角大楼现在承认在多个地方的梅贾利冷库存在“可能的制冷中断”问题。通过官方消息确认，近几天内至少有六个军事设施出现几乎同时的制冷系统故障或重大问题，同时还有更多独立证实的其他事件。我知道这听起来疯狂，但请坚持听我说下去。不是一个冰箱，不是一个杂货店，也不是任何普通的杂货店。军用梅贾利冷库（位于全国各地军事基地上的军人及其家属的免税杂货店）的制冷系统似乎正处于某种围攻状态；要么是它们自己老旧的设备正在齐刷刷地自我了断，要么是有某种更为阴险的力量（或人）在作祟。从何说起呢？浏览我的社交媒体常看列表时，我开始看到零星的帖子，抱怨梅贾利突然失去了整个冷藏和冷冻区。所有冷藏食品要么腐败，要么被撤下货架。我觉得这很不幸且浪费，但对我来说并无影响。我不在那里购物，我对冷冻食品的可用性没有任何利益关系，而且梅贾利的运营效率也并非出奇的良好，因此，我继续往下看。但随后我又看到了另一篇帖子，又另一篇……一片评论在一起响起，哦，奇怪，这里也发生了同样的事情。什么概率啊！这一模式引起了我的注意，随后我深入研究了军用社交媒体的讨论、商业制冷技术、国防采购合同，以及网络安全知识的复习，以尝试恢复起我学位课程中要求掌握的基本网络安全知识。那从来不是我的强项。我清楚地记得曾想：我什么时候会用到这些呢？（在以前，冰箱是没有网络的）在最初发布时，我确认了14个梅贾利冷库/冰箱停电报告，涉及11个州的军事设施，时间为8月26日至27日。后续添加的用星号标记，后来被判定为不支持或无关的报告仍然被划掉，以保持透明。芳蒂·胡阿奇卡（已确认）F.E. 沃伦空军基地（已确认）芙特·厄尔温（已确认）哥伦布空军基地（已确认）新港海军站（已确认8月26日；8月29日恢复）*特拉维斯空军基地（已确认）雷蒙多海军航空站（独立证实；根据梅贾利员工确认于8月28日恢复）胡恩米姆（独立证实）利ittle罗克空军基地戴西斯空军基地（独立证实；根据梅贾利员工确认于8月29日恢复）霍洛曼空军基地罗宾斯空军基地麦克康纳尔空军基地坎农空军基地郑康军营（已移除；根据当地消息8月28日正常运营）莱昂军营（已移除：最初被确认为当前的官方停电通知实际上是来自2025年）

要非常清楚地说明：我没有证据证明防务梅贾利局遭到了黑客攻击。存在的只是一些迹象表明某些奇怪的事情正在发生，以及大量关于如何在技术上实现此类规模网络事件的解释，以及可能比缺乏冷蔬菜更大的影响。我此前对此并不熟悉，我说这话并无冒犯之意（你们一定很可爱）芳蒂·胡阿奇卡人；亚利桑那州科齐斯县的这个军事基地引起了我的今日关注。8月27日，美国陆军芳蒂·胡阿奇卡官方Facebook账户宣布，一次夜间设备故障导致梅贾利的所有冰箱进入除霜模式，腐坏了内部的所有物品。这并非简单地是电力闪断导致冰淇淋融化的情况，因为有人就此评论道。芳蒂·胡阿奇卡从其已验证的账户回复道：“电没有断”

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