La Poste services, French postsuffered a cyberattack on Monday which impacted the delivery of parcels in the run-up to Christmas, as well as several banking services. “Our website is unavailable. Our teams do everything they can to restore the situation as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience caused,” La Poste’s online page has indicated since the morning.
The problems affect its popular parcel line, called Colissimo, as well as Banque Postale’s banking services. “Since early in the morning, an incident has occurred which affects access to your online banking services and the mobile application. It is currently being resolved and our teams are doing everything they can to restore the service quickly,” detailed the La Poste banking service on social networks.
Sources from the National Post told the BFMTV channel that the incident is the product of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, that is to say one which seeks to collapse the servers due to saturation. multiply the requests that reach them. The banks Caisse d’Épargne and Banque Populaire, both belonging to the BPCE group, also reported online problems this morning.
“Currently, an incident is preventing access to your customer area on the web. Our teams work to restore service as quickly as possible. The mobile application works normally. We apologize for the inconvenience caused,” we can read on the Caisse d’Épargne website.
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