A pro-Russian hacking group has claimed responsibility for a significant cyberattack that crippled France's national postal service La Poste during one of its busiest periods, leaving postal workers unable to track deliveries and disrupting online banking services for millions of customers.
The hacking group Noname057(16), known for targeting Western infrastructure in apparent retaliation for support of Ukraine, announced the attack through encrypted channels. French prosecutors confirmed the claim and announced that the country's domestic intelligence agency DGSI has taken over the investigation.
La Poste's central computer systems were knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that began Monday and remained unresolved through Wednesday morning. The disruption affected package tracking services across France and caused payment processing issues at La Banque Postale, the postal service's banking arm.
The cyberattack came just days after France's government revealed it had suffered a separate breach affecting the Interior Ministry, in which hackers extracted dozens of sensitive documents and gained access to police records and information on wanted individuals.
French cybersecurity officials have warned that critical infrastructure remains vulnerable to state-sponsored and hacktivist attacks, particularly as geopolitical tensions continue. The government has pledged to strengthen digital defenses and is working with European partners to improve collective cybersecurity capabilities.
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