Yandex outage after Ukrainian drone strikes on data centers
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The short version
- Yandex says drone attacks damaged three of its data centers.
- Two facilities were shut down and a third partly disabled, cutting access to cloud files.
- The Verge says the bot-traffic drop was probably not the kind of Russian bot activity people assume.
What happened
Yandex confirmed a service outage after drone attacks damaged three of its data centers. Two facilities were shut down and a third was partly disabled, according to BleepingComputer. Users lost access to cloud files. The Verge reports that a chart citing Cloudflare data showed a sharp drop in online bot traffic after the strikes, but says that drop probably does not reflect the bot activity people associate with Russia.
Why it might matter
Russian digital services may face more disruption as the drone campaign against data infrastructure continues. Users of Yandex cloud services are directly affected.
What we don’t know yet
The sources do not say when service will return. The attribution of the attacks to Ukraine is reported in the Verge item and not confirmed by Yandex in these texts. The Verge’s reading of the bot data is its own analysis.
