US EditionCyberattack Disrupts France’s Postal Service and Banking During Christmas Rush
A distributed denial of service attack disabled La Poste's online services and blocked banking app functions, forcing payment approvals via text messages during peak holiday season.
- A suspected cyberattack rendered France's national postal service and its banking arm offline during the busy Christmas season.
- The cyber incident blocked and delayed package deliveries and online payments for La Poste and La Banque Postale customers.
- While customer data was not impacted, employees had to turn away frustrated customers trying to send or retrieve packages and gifts.
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French's Postal Service Has Outage at an Awkward Time
A suspected cyberattack knocked France's national postal service and its banking arm offline Monday, blocking and delaying package deliveries and online payments at the height of the busy Christmas season. The postal service, La Poste, said in a statement that a distributed denial of service incident "rendered its online services...
France's national postal operator and its banking division suffered a suspected cyberattack on Monday, disrupting parcel deliveries and online payments during the peak Christmas period. La Poste said in a statement that a distributed denial of service (DDoS) incident made its online services unavailable. The postal service said customer data remained secure, but parcel and mail deliveries were affected. At a Paris post office decorated with Chri…
Suspected Cyberattack Knocks France’s National Postal Service Offline
France’s largest postal operator, La Poste, and its banking subsidiary have been hit by a suspected cyberattack, disrupting mail services and online payments during the peak Christmas holiday period. La Poste said on the morning of Dec. 22 that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incident had rendered its online services inaccessible. DDoS attacks overwhelm websites or servers with internet traffic, exhausting system resources and preventing …
You may have had difficulties connecting to the service of your bank on Monday. A cyberattack has penalized the customers of the Bank Postale, Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne. This attack has also targeted the Post Office's parcel service. The hackers' objective is to make the company's platform inaccessible to its users. Two days before Christmas Eve, delivery is therefore greatly disrupted by a general computer failure. (Police, justice …
A cyber attack in France, carried out just three days before Easter, knocked out the postal service, so the delivery of parcels and online payments were either blocked or delayed. The attack and the timing of its execution upset millions of people in the midst of the Christmas season, bringing angry citizens and postal officials into conflict.
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