Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The French Post Office says it was the victim of a suspected DDoS attack during a “major network incident” on December 22, which disrupted its postal and banking services.— France’s national postal and bakery services company, La Poste, has been taken offline due to an alleged distributed denial of service…
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