Several major La Poste services, such as package tracking or the customer area, were inaccessible for several hours this Tuesday. The fault lies with a host outage, possibly caused by a computer attack.
A few days after the French connected home specialist Netatmo, another French heavyweight experienced an outage on Tuesday February 6, 2024: La Poste. The company experienced major disruptions between 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., shutting down several of its services such as package tracking, making appointments, access to the customer area and online postage. . The group spoke, during the day, of a “hosting incident”.
The Turk Hack Team group claims a cyberattack against La Poste
On the La Poste website, never spared from cyberattacks, you may have come across the following message: “ Following an exceptional incident with our host, the laposte.fr site is unavailable “. Behind this mysterious message, we are starting to see a little more clearly.
As wrote it on the social network the very renowned ethical hacker Clément Domingo, aka SaxX, the computer attack was claimed by a group of Turkish hackers, “Turk Hack Team”, which became known a year ago now and which succeeded in force to hack the Telegram page of ANSSI, the French computer security agency.
This Turkish group also distinguished itself by attacking the aerospace giant Lockheed Martin or by exploring a flaw in surveillance software from the French Centreon, a service provider to Thales, Total and EDF. So what would Turk Hack Team have done at La Poste this Tuesday?
A DDoS attack undermines La Poste
Cybercriminals are said to have targeted La Poste by launching a DDoS attack, known as “distributed denial of service”. Remember that these attacks consist of sending a very large number of requests to a target, a website, to prevent it from functioning normally. Generally, a sufficiently powerful DDoS attack is capable of bringing down a site, and this was the case this Tuesday, for several hours.
At the very beginning of the afternoon, La Poste informed its customers that the services affected a little earlier were available again, information that we can confirm to you, after viewing the company’s Downdetector curve in particular, even if rare slowdowns are still to be reported.
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