{
  "id": 14434086,
  "title": "Users start reporting outages in Sberbank services after Ukrainian drone attack on company’s data center",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/users-start-reporting-outages-in-sberbank-services-after-ukrainian",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-14T10:46:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/14/users-start-reporting-outages-in-sberbank-services-after-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-company-s-data-center"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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. Meduza, the news organization reporting this event, emphasizes transparency regarding its use of artificial intelligence in content creation. This article was penned by a human journalist and translated from Russian using an AI model adhering to stringent editorial guidelines.",
  "summary": "The number of users reporting outages in Sberbank’s services has sharply increased in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Novosibirsk region, and other regions, according to data from the monitoring sites Sboi.rf and Downdetector.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "New Voice of Ukraine",
        "title": "Ukrainian drones strike Sberbank mega data center in Saratov Oblast — photoreport",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/ukrainian-drones-strike-sberbank-mega-data-center-in-saratov-oblast",
        "published": "2026-10-14T08:13:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Moscow Times",
        "title": "Ukrainian Drones Hit Sberbank Data Center After Yandex Attacks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/ukrainian-drones-hit-sberbank-data-center-after-yandex-attacks",
        "published": "2026-10-14T08:30:36.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}