Suspected Cyberattack Knocks Frances National Postal Service Offline

This photograph shows the logo of French postal service La Poste and banking service La Banque Postale in central Paris on July 30, 2025. Martin Lelievre/AFP via Getty ImagesFrance’s largest postal operator, La Poste, and its banking subsidiary have been hit by a suspected cyberattack, disrupting mail services and online payments during the peak Christmas holiday period.La Poste said on the morning of Dec. 22 that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incident had rendered its online services inaccessible. DDoS attacks overwhelm websites or servers with internet traffic, exhausting system resources and preventing legitimate users from accessing services.