Two more messengers stopped working for Russians without a VPN.…
Two more messengers stopped working for Russians without a VPN. Users of the South Korean messenger KakaoTalk and Turkish BiP have reported service failures in various regions of Russia for the third day, according to the channel 'Be Careful, Moscow'.
Consensus
- Users in Russia experienced issues with both BiP and KakaoTalk when not using a VPN.
- The services continued to work normally when accessed via a VPN.
- Roskomnadzor did not issue any comments or confirm the blocking of these messengers.
- Problems were reported across different regions and internet service providers in Russia.
Points of divergence
- The outage has been observed by users on various telecom operators and ISPs, but the cause is unknown. — tg_varlamov_news
- Users reported issues with KakaoTalk since Monday, and Downdetector recorded over 150 complaints about BiP in the past day; however, there was no significant increase in reports for KakaoTalk. — tg_moscowtimes_ru
Coverage (2 sources)
- В России перестали работать без VPN турецкий мессенджер BiP и южнокорейский KakaoTalk, сообщает SecurityLab. — Varlamov News
- Two more messengers stopped working for Russians without a VPN — The Moscow Times