France’s postal and banking services have been disrupted by a suspected DDoS attack

La Poste, the French national mail and bakery service company, has been suspended due to suspected denial of distributed service (DDoS) The attack on Monday, According to the company’s announcement. The Postal Service described the attack as a “major network incident” that disabled “all of our information systems.”

La Poste’s postal and online banking services, website and mobile app are among the services that are temporarily unavailable, according to a machine translation of the announcement, which said customers can still conduct banking and postal transactions in person.

The banking branch of La Banque Postale as well Posted an ad About the cyber attack, which was “temporarily blocking our customers’ access to their mobile applications and online banking space.”

Although Claims Prepared by a Russian group of hacktivists, it is not yet clear who is behind the cyberattack.

The cyber attack comes as the French government faces a series of recent cybersecurity incidents, including… Remote control software It was found planted on a passenger ferry.

Last week, the French Ministry of the Interior Revealed a data breach Hackers broke into email accounts and stole confidential documents, including criminal records. Shortly after, local authorities Arrest announced A 22-year-old suspect, whose name has not been revealed.

It is not clear whether any of these incidents are related.