Cyber-attack on France's La Poste disrupts postal and financial services
In December 2025, during the Christmas peak season, French postal operator La Poste was hit by a cyber-attack that disrupted its postal and online banking services. French authorities opened an investigation, and pro-Russian hackers claimed responsibility for the attack.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- La Poste
- Incident type
- DDoS
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Outages and disruption to French postal and online banking services
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack
- Location
- France
Timeline
- La Poste's postal and online banking services were knocked offline by a cyber-attack.
- French authorities opened an investigation into the attack claimed by pro-Russian hackers.
- Pro-Russian hackers continued to claim they were behind the attack.
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