Drone Attack Halts Yandex Data Center in Vladimir
Yandex's payment service has been non-functional for two days following a drone strike on the company's data center in Vladimir. Yandex Pay, integrated with Yandex Bank, has been almost entirely unavailable for the second day after the drone attack on the Vladimir data center on October 11.
Consensus
- A drone attack occurred on a Yandex data center in Vladimir Oblast.
- The data center's operations were completely halted.
- No casualties were reported.
- Multiple Yandex services became inaccessible or experienced disruptions.
- Power, water, and heating services in the region were disrupted.
- Electrical supply was restored to 80% by morning, and water and heat were fully restored.
- Users reported issues with Yandex Go, Yandex Pay, Yandex Eats, Yandex Maps, Alice, and other services.
- Third-party services including MagNIT, Lenta, Pyaterochka, Dodo Pizza, Vkusno i Tochka, Delivery Club, and others experienced outages.
- The attack occurred during the night of October 10–11.
- Yandex stated that the remaining resource configuration is unstable and recommended using alternative recovery plans.
Points of divergence
- The attack occurred at 5:10 Moscow time, with a power outage reported at 4:12. — gazeta_spb
- The attack was carried out by Ukrainian Armed Forces (ВСУ). — kommersant
- This was the third drone attack on Yandex data centers in one week. — tg_bbcrussian
- The outage affected internal Yandex services for couriers, drivers, and support staff. — tg_mash
- This is the third Yandex data center attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. — tg_dwglavnoe
- The attack damaged another Yandex data center in Vladimir. — tg_paperpaper_ru
Coverage (20 sources)
- Expert Zebrun named timelines for restoring services after attacks on Yandex data center — Москва 24
- Yandex payment service not working for second day after drone strike on data center in Vladimir — The Moscow Times
- S attacks on Yandex data center in Vladimir have lasted more than a day. Which services are working, and which remain unavailable... — Бумага
- Yandex data center in Vladimir stopped operations after drone attack When work will resume, it is unknown yet. — Новости Москвы
- What NeMoscow said on October 11. We are drawing conclusions from Sunday — Говорит НеМосква
- Yandex data center in Vladimir stopped operations after drone attack When work will resume, it is unknown. — Новости Москвы
- Yandex reported on the resuscitation of a number of services — Фонтанка
- Drone attack stopped Yandex data center in Vladimir and caused service outages - SPb Newspaper - St. Petersburg news — Gazeta.SPb
- Which services are still unavailable after the attack on the Yandex data center — Фонтанка
- Drone attack hit another Yandex data center in Vladimir. Users complained about service outages in numerous ser... — Бумага
- Third weekly attack on Yandex data centers — now in Vladimir city. What is known The data center work is completely... — BBC News Русская служба
- What is known about the strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Yandex data center in Vladimir — Коммерсантъ
- Drone attack hit another Yandex data center in Vladimir. Users complained about service outages... — Бумага
- Attack on "Yandex" in Vladimir. What is known — Фонтанка
- Major outage in the Russian Internet — due to strikes on Yandex data center in Vladimir, many websites and applications are not working. — Mash
- Third weekly attack on Yandex data centers — now in Vladimir city. What is known — BBC News Русская служба
- Yandex data center in Vladimir stopped operations after drone attack, company service outage widespread... — DW Главное
- Major outage in Yandex services occurred after drone attack on data center in Vladimir region — SOTAvision
- Yandex data center in Vladimir fully stopped operations after attack by Ukrainian drones — as reported by Mash in press service... — Mash
- Yandex data center in Vladimir stopped operations after drone attack When work will resume, it is unknown. — Новости Москвы
Key entities
- Yandex
- Vladimire
- Ukrainian Armed Forces
- Vladimir Oblast
- Russia
- Yandex Pay
- Yandex Cloud Alerts
- Moscow
- Mash
- Yandex Go
- Aleksandr Avdeev
- Lamoda
- Yandex Cloud
- Anton Dolzhykh
- Elena Melnikova, Ministry of Digital Development
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