Suspected DDoS attack takes France’s post office offline

• 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.