Cyberattack Hits French Postal Service, Delaying Mail Deliveries

A suspected cyberattack disrupted services provided by French postal service La Poste on Monday, delaying package deliveries and online payment systems during the holiday season.

The company said in a statement that a “major network incident” had disrupted its information systems, which included services operated by its online banking arm, La Banque Postale and the laposte.fr website, which displayed a message stating that it was currently unavailable. Services may be temporarily disrupted at some post offices, it said.

A spokesperson for La Poste told French news outlet BFMTV that the outage was due to a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, ...