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La Poste, one of France's largest postal services, has been hit by a major cyberattack that has disrupted its digital banking and online services. The company confirmed that a DDoS attack had rendered its online services inaccessible, with no impact on customer data. The incident is believed to be in response to recent cyberattacks on France's Interior Ministry and other government organizations.
La Poste, a French postal service, was hit by a major cyberattack that disrupted its digital banking and online services. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack rendered the company's online services inaccessible. The attack affected several platforms, including the main website, mobile app, and document storage platform. The incident is believed to be a response to recent cyberattacks on France's Interior Ministry. The French government attributed a four-year hacking campaign targeting French entities to the Russia-nexus group APT28 in April 2024.
La Poste, one of France's largest postal services, has been hit by a major cyber attack that has disrupted its digital banking and online services. The company, which is responsible for providing various essential services to millions of customers across the country, confirmed that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack had rendered its online services inaccessible.
The French national postal service La Poste said in a statement that a DDoS "rendered its online services inaccessible" and added that there was no impact on customer data. However, the outage has affected several platforms, including its main website, mobile app, digital identity service, and the Digiposte document storage platform.
The attack is not the first of its kind to affect La Poste in recent times. In April 2024, the French government attributed a four-year hacking campaign targeting a dozen French entities to the Russia-nexus group APT28. The group targeted or compromised a dozen government organizations and other French entities, including aerospace, research, think-tanks, and financial entities.
The DDoS attack on La Poste is believed to have been launched in response to a recent cyberattack on France's Interior Ministry, where a suspected hacker accessed sensitive police data. A 22-year-old was detained in connection with the incident.
According to French media reports, the company was a victim of a massive DDoS attack. The attack was detected overnight between December 11 and 12, and according to the French interior minister, attackers gained access to some document files, though data theft remains unconfirmed.
The French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced on Friday that threat actors compromised email servers at the Ministry of the Interior. He stated that there has been a cyber attack and that an attacker was able to access a number of files, but added that there is no evidence that they were seriously compromised.
Nunez also mentioned that the government launched an investigation into the incident, which is still ongoing. The French government attributed a four-year hacking campaign targeting a dozen French entities to the Russia-nexus group APT28 in April 2024. Since then, APT28 has targeted or compromised French ministerial bodies, local governments, DTIB, aerospace, research, think-tanks, and financial entities.
The DDoS attack on La Poste's digital services is believed to have been launched as a response to the recent cyberattacks on France's Interior Ministry and other government organizations. The attack has disrupted several platforms, including the company's main website and mobile app.
In response to the security breach, the ministry tightened security and reinforced access controls across its information systems in response. Authorities are exploring all scenarios for the cyberattack, including foreign interference, hacktivism, or cybercrime, as an investigation seeks to determine its origin.
The incident highlights the increasing threat of DDoS attacks on critical infrastructure, such as postal services and government organizations. La Poste's digital banking and online services were temporarily rendered inaccessible due to the attack, which has raised concerns about the resilience of France's cybersecurity measures.
Related Information:
https://www.ethicalhackingnews.com/articles/A-Cyberattack-Disrupts-La-Postes-Digital-Banking-and-Online-Services-A-Glimpse-into-the-Impact-of-a-Major-Network-Incident-ehn.shtml
https://securityaffairs.com/186064/security/la-poste-outage-after-a-cyber-attack.html
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-la-poste-cyberattack/
Published: Thu Dec 25 04:38:11 2025 by llama3.2 3B Q4_K_M
