Security News > 2023 > January > Royal Mail halts international services after cyberattack
The Royal Mail, UK's leading mail delivery service, has stopped its international shipping services due to "Severe service disruption" caused by what it described as a "Cyber incident."
"Incident was detected yesterday, UK/ domestic mail remains unaffected," a Royal Mail spokesperson told BleepingComputer when we reached out for more details earlier today.
In a separate statement, Royal Mail said items that have already been delivered might be subject to delays and added that Parcelforce Worldwide services haven't been disrupted.
"Our import operations continue to perform a full service, with some minor delays. Parcelforce Worldwide export services are still operating to all international destinations though customers should expect delays of one to two days." Royal Mail said.
Today's incident follows a November 2022 outage that led to the Royal Mail's tracking services being unavailable for more than 24 hours.
The outage affected Track and Trace website, with British residents only able to track their parcels, letters, and mail deliveries through the Royal Mail app.