France’s post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident'
(2025/12/23)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2025/12/23/la_poste_france_offline/
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La Poste, France’s postal service, is largely offline, possibly due to an unexplained incident.
At the time of writing, the organization’s website offers only a brief message that opens “Notre site est indisponible” – our site is unavailable – and adds that its teams are doing all they can to resolve the situation quickly.
On its Facebook page, La Poste [1]published a notice that states “A major network incident is currently disrupting all of our information systems.”
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The notice states that the laposte.fr site is down, as is the Digiposte secure document storage service, La Poste’s digital identity service, and the La Poste app.
[3]
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The notice also warns that some post offices may experience degraded service, but that over-the-counter transactions remain possible.
La Poste also operates a bank, Banque Postale, which is experiencing trouble.
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On its [6]X account , the bank told customers “An incident is currently disrupting the accessibility of part of our information systems. All our teams are fully mobilized to restore the situation as quickly as possible.”
Basic services such as payments and SMS-based 2FA remain available, but the bank’s app and online services are down.
[7]French AI shop Mistral rolls out full suite of Apache-licensed models
[8]French Football Federation faces own-goal after club software data breach
[9]GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
[10]Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel
French outlet Le Monde Informatique [11]reports that La Poste says it’s experienced a DDoS attack.
Cloudflare’s [12]Radar service records some traffic spikes on Monday, the day on which La Poste’s troubles began, but The Register cannot find evidence of malicious traffic targeting France in recent hours.
It is unclear if the incident will delay deliveries in the last two days before Christmas.
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Whatever’s going on, La Poste appears to be struggling to restore services as the little information it has posted is ten or twelve hours old at the time of writing.
The Register will update this story if more information becomes available. ®
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[1] https://www.facebook.com/laposte/posts/pfbid0BTNCFHWHyhdwtBM6nKoph2ZBWQp9JkqSa4HzJfvJyiT89LbGHscMnYHLa7Zhc4ril?locale=fr_FR
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[6] https://x.com/LaBanquePostale/status/2003079421755023764
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/mistral_3/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/french_football_federation_breach/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/28/grapheneos_ovhcloud/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/eviden_france_exascale/
[11] https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-plusieurs-services-en-ligne-de-la-poste-bloques-par-une-attaque-ddos-98876.html
[12] https://radar.cloudflare.com/security/network-layer/fr
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[14] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
At the time of writing, the organization’s website offers only a brief message that opens “Notre site est indisponible” – our site is unavailable – and adds that its teams are doing all they can to resolve the situation quickly.
On its Facebook page, La Poste [1]published a notice that states “A major network incident is currently disrupting all of our information systems.”
[2]
The notice states that the laposte.fr site is down, as is the Digiposte secure document storage service, La Poste’s digital identity service, and the La Poste app.
[3]
[4]
The notice also warns that some post offices may experience degraded service, but that over-the-counter transactions remain possible.
La Poste also operates a bank, Banque Postale, which is experiencing trouble.
[5]
On its [6]X account , the bank told customers “An incident is currently disrupting the accessibility of part of our information systems. All our teams are fully mobilized to restore the situation as quickly as possible.”
Basic services such as payments and SMS-based 2FA remain available, but the bank’s app and online services are down.
[7]French AI shop Mistral rolls out full suite of Apache-licensed models
[8]French Football Federation faces own-goal after club software data breach
[9]GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
[10]Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel
French outlet Le Monde Informatique [11]reports that La Poste says it’s experienced a DDoS attack.
Cloudflare’s [12]Radar service records some traffic spikes on Monday, the day on which La Poste’s troubles began, but The Register cannot find evidence of malicious traffic targeting France in recent hours.
It is unclear if the incident will delay deliveries in the last two days before Christmas.
[13]
Whatever’s going on, La Poste appears to be struggling to restore services as the little information it has posted is ten or twelve hours old at the time of writing.
The Register will update this story if more information becomes available. ®
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[1] https://www.facebook.com/laposte/posts/pfbid0BTNCFHWHyhdwtBM6nKoph2ZBWQp9JkqSa4HzJfvJyiT89LbGHscMnYHLa7Zhc4ril?locale=fr_FR
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[6] https://x.com/LaBanquePostale/status/2003079421755023764
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/mistral_3/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/french_football_federation_breach/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/28/grapheneos_ovhcloud/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/eviden_france_exascale/
[11] https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-plusieurs-services-en-ligne-de-la-poste-bloques-par-une-attaque-ddos-98876.html
[12] https://radar.cloudflare.com/security/network-layer/fr
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[14] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Fais DDoS (Colas mon p'tit frère?)
Yeah, cool to see how the Radar Service (TFA link) sees the bulk of attacks on France coming from the US, and Brazil+Argentina at this time. I'd guess the South American component may be retaliation for France's move to not ratify the EU's MercoSur free trade agreement -- a hard sell seeing how farmers' been blocking major highways and spreading manue on town halls, and in Brussels, to protest that treaty.
Meanwhile, the US component may be bog standard rectum Putinistan proxy action through the offal orifice's fake spray-on cheese poodle in chief and suchlike chihuahuas ... SoB SOP.
What's amazing however is that La Poste is not on strike ATM, like Lille's garbage collectors, or planning to be, like [1]SNCF (trains). Something's wildly amiss here imho ... ;)
[1] https://www.cestlagreve.fr/greve/sncf-janvier-2026/