Drone strikes damage two Yandex data centers in Russia
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Russian technology company Yandex said drone attacks damaged two of its five data centers over two consecutive nights, disrupting infrastructure used for its search engine, cloud products and other digital services.
The first strike hit Yandex’s facility in Sasovo, in Russia’s Ryazan region, overnight on Oct. 8. The company said the attack caused a fire, seriously damaged the site and forced it to suspend operations completely. The facility houses tens of thousands of servers and two of Yandex’s three supercomputers used to develop artificial intelligence models. Reports indicated problems accessing computing, storage, database and network services.
A second attack struck a Yandex data center in the Kaluga region overnight on Oct. 9, disabling several modules. Yandex warned that some services could face disruptions while it assessed the damage. The company told Russian state media that some AI chatbot functions were temporarily unavailable and that smart-home devices could also be affected.
Yandex reported no employee casualties at either facility. Kaluga Governor Vladislav Shapsha said nine people were injured in drone attacks elsewhere in the region and that homes were damaged.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry confirmed the data-center attacks, according to the BBC. President Volodymyr Zelensky described them as retaliation for Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers. Militarnyi reported that the Oct. 8 attack also struck the Sasta machine-tool plant at the Sasovo site.
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WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: Correct the unsupported attribution of the Yandex Cloud disruption reports. - "Yandex Cloud users reported problems accessing computing, storage, database and network services.": The sources say reports indicated problems accessing those Yandex Cloud services, but do not specifically say users reported them.
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Drone strikes damage two Yandex data centers in Russia
Russian technology company Yandex said drone attacks damaged two of its five data centers over two consecutive nights, disrupting infrastructure used for its search engine, cloud products and other digital services.
The first strike hit Yandex’s facility in Sasovo, in Russia’s Ryazan region, overnight on Oct. 8. The company said the attack caused a fire, seriously damaged the site and forced it to suspend operations completely. The facility houses tens of thousands of servers and two of Yandex’s three supercomputers used to develop artificial intelligence models. YandexReports Cloud users reportedindicated problems accessing computing, storage, database and network services.
A second attack struck a Yandex data center in the Kaluga region overnight on Oct. 9, disabling several modules. Yandex warned that some services could face disruptions while it assessed the damage. The company told Russian state media that some AI chatbot functions were temporarily unavailable and that smart-home devices could also be affected.
Yandex reported no employee casualties at either facility. Kaluga Governor Vladislav Shapsha said nine people were injured in drone attacks elsewhere in the region and that homes were damaged.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry confirmed the data-center attacks, according to the BBC. President Volodymyr Zelensky described them as retaliation for Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers. Militarnyi reported that the Oct. 8 attack also struck the Sasta machine-tool plant at the Sasovo site.
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