It is impossible today to track the delivery of packages or print stamps! The La Poste site is the victim of a technical incident which makes some of its services inaccessible.
If you are planning to use La Poste online services today, you would do well to postpone your plans until tomorrow! In fact, many Internet users are complaining on social networks or through the Downdetector reporting platform of difficulties accessing the website this Thursday, October 19, since around 6 a.m. Tracking, online registered letter and stamp printing services are inaccessible. “An incident is currently underway on certain online services, including tracking, stamp printing and online registered letters. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused. Please renew your visit later “, we can read on the home page of the site. When trying to access the page for sending registered parcels, we are told that, “following a technical incident, the laposte.fr site is unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.“. Laposte.net and Digiposte, however, remain available.
La Poste outage: maintenance or denial of service attack?
But then, what happens? This morning, around 9 a.m., the site displayed a “current maintenance”and he now evokes a “technical incident”. HAS At first glance, it appears to be a 503 error – this happens when the server is down or inaccessible due to maintenance or overload – but the reasons behind it are unknown. Perhaps it is a denial of services (DDoS) attack.
This would not be the first time that La Poste has faced attacks of this type. In July 2022, the La Poste Mobile site was the victim of a cyberattack from the Lockbit group, which forced the group to close the website for ten days and resulted in the publication on the Dark Web of numerous customer data (see our article). Just last May, laposte.fr was also the target of hacktivists from Bangladesh, who launched a denial of service attack. Hopefully it’s nothing serious this time!