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A suspected cyberattack knocked France’s national postal service and its banking branch offline on Monday, causing disruptions and delays in package deliveries and online payments during the busy Christmas season.
La Poste, the postal service, said in a statement that the distributed denial of service incident, or DDoS, had “made its online services inaccessible.” It said the incident had no impact on customer data, but package and mail deliveries were disrupted.
on a Paris The post office is decorated with holiday garlands and is normally bustling this time of year, with employees turning away frustrated customers lining up to send or receive packages, including Christmas gifts.
Customers of the company’s banking arm, La Banque Postale, were blocked from using the application to approve payments or conduct other banking services. The bank redirected approvals to text messages instead.
“Our teams are working to resolve the situation quickly,” the bank said in messages posted on social networks.