Overview
- Online platforms for La Poste and La Banque Postale went down around 03:30 on January 1 and were progressively restored by late afternoon.
- The attack was a denial-of-service flood generating several billion connection attempts per second, disrupting parcel tracking, Digiposte, and banking log-ins.
- Physical delivery of mail and parcels continued, and customers could confirm online card payments via SMS when the banking app was unavailable.
- The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened a criminal probe entrusted to the DGSI and the national cyber unit following a complaint by La Poste.
- A late-December outage of the same type was claimed by the pro-Russian group NoName057(16), though authorities have not confirmed attribution for the January 1 incident.