Ukrainian Drones Hit Sberbank Data Center After Yandex Attacks
The 55,000-square-meter facility was expected to be one of Europe's largest data centers, with construction set to finish in 2030.
On October 14, Ukrainian drones launched an attack on Sberbank's data center in Balakovo, Saratov region. The incident led to widespread outages across Sberbank's services in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and other regions. Users reported issues with online banking, payment processing, website loading, and app functionality.
Similar complications were noticed on other platforms like Mail.ru, Kontur, Ozon, MegaFon, and VKontakte, as well as the SkyNet St. Petersburg provider. Despite the attack, Sberbank's First Deputy Chairman Alexander Vedyakhin asserted that all services were functioning normally. Meanwhile, Ukraine's armed forces targeted Yandex's data centers on three occasions last week, resulting in disruptions to Yandex's services and those of numerous other websites worldwide, including those in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Serbia.
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