La Poste, France’s national postal and banking service company, was taken offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, According to a company announcementThe Postal Service called the attack “a major network incident” that was disrupting “all of our information systems,”
La Poste’s online mail and banking services, website and mobile app are among the services temporarily unavailable, according to a machine translation of the announcement, which said customers can still conduct banking and postal transactions in person.
The company also has a banking branch, La Banque Postal. published an announcement About the cyberattack, which “temporarily made our customers’ access to their mobile app and online banking location unavailable.”
despite this Claim Carried out by a Russian hacktivist group, it is not yet clear who is behind the cyber attack.
The cyber attack comes as the French government grapples with a series of recent cyber security incidents remote control software A passenger was found on board the boat.
Last week, the French Interior Ministry Data breach disclosed In which hackers broke into email accounts and stole confidential documents including criminal records. Shortly thereafter, local officials announced arrest A suspect, a 22-year-old man whose name has not been released.
It is unclear whether any of these incidents are linked.
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