DDoS Attack Disrupts French Postal and Banking Services

A suspected cyberattack disrupted France's national postal service and its banking operations on Monday, delaying mail and parcel deliveries across the country just days before Christmas.

La Poste, the state-owned postal operator, reported that a distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attack temporarily knocked out its websites, mobile applications and online services. The incident, which began early in the day, prevented customers from tracking shipments, making online purchases or accessing digital tools for postal needs. Officials emphasized that no customer data was compromised during the outage, which primarily affected digital access rather than physical infrastructure.

The disruption rippled into La Poste's banking subsidiary, La Banque Postale, where users encountered blocks on mobile app functions for approving payments and other transactions. While in-store card payments and cash withdrawals from automated teller machines continued uninterrupted, online banking required alternative verification via text messages. "Our teams are mobilized to resolve the situation quickly," the bank stated in messages shared on social media platforms.

At a typically crowded post office...