France’s postal service and its banking arm are offline for over 12 hours

La Poste, the French national postal service, confirmed on December 22, 2025 that a major cyber incident had knocked its information systems offline, disrupting digital banking and online services for millions of customers.

La Poste said in a statement that a distributed denial of service (DDoS) incident made its online services unavailable. The company confirmed that its online services: La Banque Postale online and the mobile app, laposte.fr, Digiposte, La Poste Digital Identity, and the La Poste application were temporarily inaccessible. The postal service said customer data remained secure but deliveries of packages and mail were affected.

The services have been restored since.

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