A massive outage is hitting several French banks, including Crédit Mutuel, CIC, Crédit Agricole, and Société Générale: card payments and withdrawals are IMPOSSIBLE. Toll booths are JAMMED with holiday traffic, and card terminals are showing declined payments.
Source: Flash
I just saw a post about this on nostr. What a mess!
Any sense of the cause yet?
Just today I heard of some issues in regards to France here on SN #1199463
Here’s the link to the news: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/26/france-may-need-imf-bailout-says-economy-minister/
Gonna dig into details now — though it’s just noise to be honest.
Timing is suspect that's for sure
I had seen the IMF bailout news, too. France is often a total basketcase, but it seems like this is a different kind of event.
Couldn’t find any details or statements from the banks. Could be network failure or something.
To be honest, I thought this was a bank run caused by the recent statement of French finance minister.
Seems like a potential cyber attack, but we'll see.
Link please? I am looking for something in English to understand the details.
The note I saw didn't have any more detail than this post.
But the event is real, i.e. blackout was happening? It is not a fake news?
Well, Downdetector did show user reports regarding issues with the banks and even VISA (see screenshot attached to original post. Situation seems to be fine now – just 10 issues versus 5000+ yesterday eventing.
Just when France is drowning in debt and they are pondering an IMF bailout. Cannot be a coincidence, can it?
Another bitcoin fixes this moment.
That was my first thought
The link is in French, but could not find much in English on this bank outage after running a few search. I don't know whether it's a deliberate attempt to not let the news out or just too inconsequential for the English/other media to pick up.
But it's another illustration of how language barrier becomes a tool to control information flow.