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France\u2019s national postal and baking services company La Poste was knocked offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS<\/a>) attack on Monday, according to an announcement by the company<\/a>. The postal service called the attack \u201ca major network incident\u201d that was disrupting \u201call of our information systems.\u201d<\/p>\n La Poste\u2019s online mail and banking services, website, and mobile app are among the services that are temporarily unavailable, per a machine translation of the announcement, which said customers could still carry out banking and postal transactions in person.<\/p>\n The banking branch of the company La Banque Postale, also published an announcement<\/a> about the cyberattack, which was \u201ctemporarily making our customers\u2019 access to their mobile app and online banking space unavailable.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite claims<\/a> made by a Russian hacktivist group, it\u2019s not yet clear who is behind the cyberattack.<\/p>\n The cyberattack comes as the French government contends with a series of cybersecurity incidents of late, including remote control software<\/a> found planted on a passenger ferry.<\/p>\n \u00a0Last week, the French Interior Ministry disclosed a data breach<\/a> in which hackers broke into email accounts and stole confidential documents, including criminal records. Shortly after, local authorities announced the arrest<\/a> of a suspect, a 22-year-old whose name was not divulged.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s not clear if any of the incidents are linked.<\/p>\n