From EuroNews, December 22:
The same services affected on Monday — Colissimo parcel tracking and the Digiposte digital vault — were already disrupted on Saturday, though La Poste did not immediately confirm whether that incident was also an attack.
France's national postal operator and its banking division suffered a suspected cyberattack on Monday, disrupting package 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 deliveries of packages and mail were affected.
At a Paris post office decorated with Christmas garlands, staff turned away customers queuing to send or collect parcels, including holiday gifts.
Users of the company's banking subsidiary, La Banque Postale, were unable to access the mobile application to authorise payments or carry out other banking transactions. The bank redirected payment approvals to text messages as a temporary measure....
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