Pro-Russian hackers claim cyberattack on French postal service ahead of Christmas

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A pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France's national postal service just days before Christmas, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

After the claim by the cybercrime group known as Noname057, the French intelligence agency DGSI took over investigation into the hacking attack, the Paris prosecutor's office said in a statement to The Associated Press.

The group has been accused of other cyberattacks in Europe, including around a NATO summit in the Netherlands and French government sites. It was the target of a big European police operation earlier this year.

Central computer systems at the French national postal service La Poste were knocked offline in a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, cyberattack that still wasn't fully resolved by Wednesday, the company said.

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