Overview
- The outage began around 3:30–3:50 a.m. Thursday and disrupted laposte.fr, the La Banque Postale app and Digiposte before services returned to normal by late afternoon.
- La Poste described the incident as a denial‑of‑service attack, with the company reporting several billions of connection attempts per second targeting its systems.
- Officials said there is no evidence of data theft, mail and parcel distribution continued, and banking card payments and ATM withdrawals remained available with SMS authentication as a fallback for online purchases.
- The Paris prosecutor opened an inquiry entrusted to the DGSI and the national cyber unit after the company filed a complaint in connection with the wave of attacks.
- A pro‑Russian group, NoName057(16), claimed the December 22 DDoS that disrupted tracking for days, but authorities have not attributed responsibility for the January 1 incident.