{
  "id": 19542517,
  "title": "Ukraine Strikes Cause Permanent Data Loss at Russia's Yandex Cloud",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/ukraine-strikes-cause-permanent-data-loss-at-russias-yandex-cloud",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-11T20:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
    "slug": "slashdot",
    "url": "https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/11/11/1950231/ukraine-strikes-cause-permanent-data-loss-at-russias-yandex-cloud"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Yandex Cloud experienced permanent data loss after Ukrainian strikes on its data centers in Russia. According to the company, 2.84% of customer data was irrecoverable due to severe damage to equipment and absence of backup copies. Customers who had enabled backup tools on the platform avoided data loss as their information remained intact. In response, Yandex revised its data protection and disaster recovery strategies, introducing default automatic backups for new virtual machines on Yandex Cloud. Users can still disable this feature if desired. Furthermore, Yandex Cloud unveiled a new availability zone, ru-central1-f, situated in a distinct location to bolster service resilience and reliability. Ukrainian drones targeted three Yandex data centers in Russia over four days, starting on October 8 with an attack on a facility in Ryazan region housing two supercomputers. Subsequent strikes occurred on October 9 and 11, targeting data centers in Kaluga and Vladimir regions containing the company's remaining supercomputers.",
  "summary": "Russia's Yandex says 2.84% of customer data has been permanently lost following Ukrainian strikes on data centers in the country. \"According to the company, recovery is impossible because of critical damage to equipment and the lack of backup copies on the platform,\" reports UNITED24 Media. From the report: Yandex clarified that customers who had previously enabled the platform's backup tools did…",
  "key_points": [
    "Ukrainian strikes caused permanent data loss at Yandex Cloud data centers in Russia.",
    "2.84% of customer data was irrecoverable due to equipment damage and lack of backups."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "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."
}