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The websites and apps of France\u2019s national post office and its banking service have been hit by a suspected cyberattack, disrupting deliveries and hampering online payments and transfers at the busiest time of the year.<\/p>\n
Four days before Christmas, La Poste said on Monday that a distributed denial of service incident, or DDoS, had \u201crendered its online services inaccessible\u201d. Customer data was safe, it said, but mail distribution, including parcels, had been slowed.<\/p>\n
French media reported that customers wanting to send last-minute parcels or collect items from post offices were being turned away. The postal service sorts and delivers more than 2m items in the immediate run-up to Christmas.<\/p>\n
The group\u2019s banking service, La Banque Postale, said on social media that the incident was \u201caffecting access to online banking and to the mobile app\u201d. Card payments at in-store point-of-sale terminals were still functioning, as were ATMs, it said.<\/p>\n
Online payments also remained possible but had to be authenticated via text message, it said. \u201cOur teams are mobilised to resolve the situation quickly,\u201d the bank said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the suspected attack.<\/p>\n
The BPCE group, which included the Banque Populaire and Caisse d\u2019\u00c9pargne banks, also experienced an IT malfunction on Monday morning but it was resolved by midday, the company said.<\/p>\n
The incident came a week after the French government was targeted by a cyberattack that disrupted the interior ministry, which is responsible for national security. A 22-year-old suspect had been detained in relation to that incident, French media said.<\/p>\n
The interior minister, Laurent Nu\u00f1ez, said the suspected hacker had extracted several dozen sensitive files and obtained access to data relating to police records and wanted persons. He blamed \u201cimprudence\u201d at the ministry for the incident.<\/p>\n
Anonymous backers boasted of having gained access to nearly 70m confidential data records from various police files in a data breach that they claimed affected 16.4m French citizens whose details were recorded in numerous state databases.<\/p>\n Private companies including the mobile operator SFR and DIY chain LeroyMerlin have also been the victims of attacks in recent weeks.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said last week that France\u2019s counterespionage agency was investigating a suspected cyberattack plot involving software that would have allowed remote users to control the computer systems of an international passenger ferry.<\/p>\n A Latvian crew member is in custody facing charges of having acted for an unidentified foreign power, officials said. France and other European allies of Ukraine allege that Russia is waging \u201chybrid warfare\u201d against them, including cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Frances #national #post #office #hit #suspected #cyberattack #France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The websites and apps of Franc… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}