France's National Postal and Banking Services Knocked Offline by Suspected DDoS Attack
France's national postal and banking service, La Poste, suffered a major outage on Monday from a suspected DDoS attack, affecting its website, mobile apps, and online services. The event is the latest in a series of cyberattacks targeting French infrastructure.
France’s national postal and banking company, La Poste, was hit by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, disrupting services across the country. In an announcement, the company described the event as a “major network incident” impacting “all of our information systems,” forcing its online presence offline.
According to the company, the attack rendered its website, mobile app, and online mail and banking services temporarily unavailable. Its banking subsidiary, La Banque Postale, issued a separate notice confirming the cyberattack was “temporarily making our customers’ access to their mobile app and online banking space unavailable.”
La Poste assured customers that in-person banking and postal transactions at physical locations were still operational. While a Russian hacktivist group has reportedly claimed responsibility, TechCrunch reports it's not yet clear who is behind the attack.
This incident is the latest in a series of cybersecurity challenges for the French government. Last week, the French Interior Ministry disclosed a significant data breach where hackers accessed email accounts and stole confidential files, including criminal records. Authorities later announced the arrest of a 22-year-old suspect in connection with the breach.
Other recent security events include the discovery of remote control software planted on a passenger ferry. It remains unclear if any of these incidents are linked, but they paint a picture of a nation grappling with persistent digital threats against its critical infrastructure.
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