Online Services Resume Functionality After Cyberattack
- La Poste (The Post Office) and La Banque Postale (The Postal Bank) were targeted by another cyberattack on Thursday, but services were restored by late afternoon.
- * Type of Attack: A denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, where hackers flood servers with requests to overwhelm them.
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La Poste (The Post Office) and La Banque Postale (The Postal Bank) were targeted by another cyberattack on Thursday, but services were restored by late afternoon.
Key points:
* Type of Attack: A denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, where hackers flood servers with requests to overwhelm them. Billions of connection attempts per second were made.
* Scale: Described as “unprecedented scale,” similar to a previous attack that disrupted package tracking during Christmas.
* Claim of Responsibility: A pro-Russian hacker group, NoName057(16), claimed responsibility. They have previously targeted Ukraine and its allies, including France.
* Impact: The attack affected online services like parcel tracking, Digiposte (digital safe), and the La Banque Postale app.
* Inquiry: An investigation has been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office.