Postal services in France are severely disrupted in the final days before Christmas after a cyber-attack upon La Poste. The French post operator La Poste was the victim of a cyber-attack on Saturday, leading to severe disruption in mail services in the final days before Christmas. A director of La Poste told French media that customer details were not affected, but the attack was having a serious effect on deliveries. The group said that deliveries of packages and letters were "disrupted but continuing" on Tuesday. Parcels can still be collected from post offices, but other services such as online tracking of deliveries are not available.
Although they have comparatively few problems accessing overseas bank accounts-often in the Cayman Islands or Switzerland-in lieu of a US bank account, they are often unable to earn yield on deposits or transact seamlessly with US-based counterparties, and sometimes incur high account fees.