Yandex loses third data center in four days to drone attack in Vladimir

First reported by Tom's Hardware at · Updated · 9 sources

Yandex said a drone attack knocked out its Vladimir region data center, the third company site hit in four days, according to The Next Web citing Reuters. Implicator.ai reports more than 80 cloud services went offline, including the YandexGPT API, and taxi and payment apps failed. Nobody was hurt, Yandex said.

  • RuntimeWire says Yandex confirmed outages at Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir facilities.
  • RuntimeWire says bot traffic fell to 0.4% of its two-week peak.
  • A traffic drop does not prove disinformation bots were disabled, RuntimeWire notes.

Covered by 9 publishers within 29 hours of the first report.

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Tom's Hardware Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers · Jowi Morales
RuntimeWire Yandex bot traffic fell to 0.4% of its two-week peak after Ukraine strike · Ryan Merket
The Next Web Drone attack shuts a third Yandex data centre in Russia in 4 days · Ana-Maria Stanciuc
Implicator.ai Yandex Shuts Third Data Center After Drone Strike, Cutting 80-Plus Cloud Services · Marcus Schuler
Data Center Dynamics Third strike on Yandex data center in Russia
The Record Ukraine strikes third Yandex data center, disrupting digital services across Russia
Bloomberg Yandex Taxi, Map Services Curbed After Ukraine Hits Data Centers · Bloomberg News
The Verge The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots · Jess Weatherbed
Ars Technica Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine · Jeremy Hsu

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