DDoS incident disrupts France’s postal and banking services ahead of Christmas therecord.media/la-poste-…
France’s national postal service, La Poste, confirmed that a suspected cyberattack disrupted its websites and mobile applications days before Christmas, slowing deliveries and knocking some online services offline.
In a statement on Monday, La Poste said that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incident knocked key digital systems offline. The company said there was no evidence that customer data had been compromised, but acknowledged that postal operations, including parcel distribution, had been affected.
The disruption extended to La Banque Postale, the banking service, which warned customers that access to online banking and its mobile app was affected. Card payments at in-store terminals and cash withdrawals from ATMs continued to function, and online payments remained possible if authenticated by text message, the bank said.
La Poste said some post offices were operating at reduced capacity, though customers were still able to carry out banking and postal transactions at counters. “Our teams are fully mobilised to restore services as quickly as possible,” the company said in a statement.
