Foul play. Changing the way temperature is measured to make the data look higher and changing colours to make weather maps look hotter.
The heat records have been "shattered" because ESA has started using Land Surface Temperatures, not air temperatures at 2m above the surface, which means they have altered the standards of the past records (which means they are not actually record temperatures, except on the short-term).
ESA explains "the map shows the actual temperature of the land’s surface which is significantly hotter than air temperatures".