{"id":6318,"date":"2025-12-23T13:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:36:05","slug":"french-postal-service-brought-down-by-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=6318","title":{"rendered":"French postal service brought down by cyber attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<p>France\u2019s postal service, La Poste, has been largely down for over twelve hours following a widespread network failure, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/12\/23\/la_poste_france_offline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of La Poste\u2019s IT systems are reportedly affected, including the website, the digital document service Digiposte, a digital ID service and the mobile app. It is still possible to handle cases over the counter.<\/p>\n<p>La Poste\u2019s bank, Banque Postales, app and online services are also down. Payments and SMS verification should still work.<\/p>\n<p>La Poste has not said what caused the failure, but according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemondeinformatique.fr\/actualites\/lire-plusieurs-services-en-ligne-de-la-poste-bloques-par-une-attaque-ddos-98876.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Monde Informatique<\/a> it is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/571981\/ddos-attacks-definition-examples-and-techniques.html\">DDoS attack<\/a>. It is unclear when the situation will be resolved and whether it could affect deliveries for Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s postal service, La Poste, has been largely down for over twelve hours following a widespread network failure, reports The Register. All of La Poste\u2019s IT systems are reportedly affected, including the website, the digital document service Digiposte, a digital ID service and the mobile app. It is still possible to handle cases over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}