Science & Tech · Cybersecurity · 18 hrs ago
Yandex says customer account records were safe during service outage
Yandex says customer account records for its Yandex Pay service were not lost during a major service outage.
The company says users' money is safe because it is not stored in the affected data center.
Account records are kept in several copies at different locations, and Yandex says it checked that they were intact.
The outage followed an attack by Ukrainian drones on a Yandex data center in Vladimir, which the company said had to stop operating.
It was the third Yandex data center attacked that week; earlier attacks damaged facilities in Sasovo and Kaluga.
The disruption affected almost all of Yandex's services, including its taxi, food delivery, music and video services.
Engineers are restoring services and checking their work, but Yandex has not said when recovery will be complete.
Yandex said records of customer accounts were intact during an outage affecting almost all of its services.
The company said users’ money was safe and that account records were stored in multiple copies at different sites.
The outage followed an attack on a Yandex data center in Vladimir, which the company said had to stop operating completely.
Yandex was restoring access to services, but some features remained unavailable and it did not give a full recovery timetable.
- Who
- Yandex and its customers were affected.
- What
- An outage disrupted almost all Yandex services. The company said customer account records were intact and users’ money was safe.
- When
- The outage followed an attack on a Yandex data center. The article was published on October 11, 2026.
- Where
- A Yandex data center in Vladimir was attacked. Other affected data centers were in Sasovo, Ryazan region, and Kaluga.
- Why
- The outage followed drone attacks on Yandex data centers.
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The money itself is not stored in the data center. The servers there support the services. Records of each account are stored in several copies at different sites. We checked their integrity: not a single record was lost.
Drone attacks damaged Yandex data centers in Sasovo, in Ryazan region, and Kaluga.
A drone attack hit a Yandex data center in Vladimir, the third Yandex data center attacked that week, and the facility stopped operating completely.
An outage affected almost all Yandex services.
Yandex said account records were intact and that it was restoring services.
- Affected data centers
- Vladimir, Sasovo in Ryazan region, and Kaluga
- Attacks
- Three Yandex data centers were attacked in one week
- Account records
- Stored in several copies at different sites; the company said none were lost
- Affected services
- Almost all Yandex services
- Recovery
- Some service functions remained unavailable; no exact recovery timetable was given
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