Yandex Cloud says drone strikes on data centres caused permanent data loss
Strikes since early October caused a fire and outages; Yandex says it restored over 97% of customer data but lost 2.84% and now turns on backups by default.
- Service
- Yandex Cloud
- Date
- 12 November 2026
- Cause
- Physical damage / conflict
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- post-mortem
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- The Register ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Yandex Cloud says drone strikes on data centres caused permanent data loss”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 12 Nov 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-11-12-yandex-cloud-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: The Register, https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/11/12/russian-cloud-yandex-says-drone-attacks-on-its-datacenters-caused-data-loss/5309234.
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