Postal and banking services in France have been disrupted due to DDoS attacks

Postal and banking services in France were taken offline by suspected boycotters (DDoS) attack on Monday, according to the announcement of La Poste. Post officials called the attack a “major cyber incident” that is disrupting “all of our information systems.”

La Poste’s online e-mail and banking services, website, and mobile app are among the services that are temporarily unavailable, according to machine translation, which said customers can still do banking and post in person.

The bank branch of the company La Banque Postale as well published an announcement of the cyberattack, which “caused our customers to temporarily lose access to their mobile app and online banking.”

Although what to say created by a Russian hacktivist group, it is unclear who is behind the cyberattack.

The cyberattack comes as the French government grapples with several recent cyber security incidents, including remote application found planted on a passenger ship.

Last week, the French Ministry of the Interior disclosed the data breach how hackers hacked into email accounts and stole personal information, including history. Soon, the authorities announced the arrest of the suspect, a 22-year-old whose name has not been released.

It is unclear if any of the incidents are connected.