Suspected DDoS attack takes France’s post office offline
Multiple sites and services are inaccessible at peak time
· TechRadarNews By Sead Fadilpašić published 24 December 2025
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- La Poste suffers major network incident, disrupting all online services and apps
- Banking operations partly functional: SMS authentication, ATMs, POS payments, and WERO transfers remain available
- Cause unclear: suspected ransomware, but local media suggest possible DDoS attack
France's national postal service, La Poste, is currently seeing outages due to a “major network incident” at one of it's busiest times of the year.
In a short announcement published on the organization’s Facebook page, it was said that all of the organization’s information systems are currently disrupted.
“Our online services—La Banque Postale online and mobile app, laposte.fr, Digiposte, La Poste Digital Identity, and the La Poste app—are temporarily unavailable,” the announcement, machine-translated, reads.
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At press time, the laposte.fr website was indeed offline, showing only a short message saying “Our website is unavailable.”
“Our teams are doing everything possible to restore the situation as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.”
La Poste also said that for banking customers, online payments remain possible with SMS authentication, and that cash withdrawals at ATMs, card payments at in-store POS terminals, and transfers via WERO, were still available.
However, Banque Postale, a bank operated by La Poste, seems to be experiencing issues, as well. On X, it said that an incident was currently “disrupting the accessibility of part of our information systems. All our teams are fully mobilized to restore the situation as quickly as possible.”
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