Attacks from Ukraine on Russian data centers in October disrupted dozens of services, from taxi and food delivery to banking and email. According to NetBlocks, connectivity to Yandex Cloud fell to about 30% of normal after attacks between October 8 and 11, affecting 84 cloud services. Yandex confirmed one data center was severely damaged, another was shut down and a third was disrupted, and has not disclosed the full extent of the damage or a recovery timeline. Yandex Pay was still only partly working as of Monday, and dozens of court hearings across Russia were also disrupted by technical problems. According to T-Invariant, all three of Yandex's supercomputers are likely also heavily affected, which could leave Russia years behind in the AI race.
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