Critical infrastructure
Drones reported to hit Yandex data centre in Sasovo; site suspended after fire
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Reuters reported that drones hit Yandex's Sasovo data hub in Russia's Ryazan region, one of the company's five large data centres, in what it called the first major attack on a Russian data hub. The site suffered a fire and was suspended.
Drone presenceReported[1] What we know
The Sasovo hub suffered a fire and was suspended; Yandex said it was restoring affected services and that its core consumer services were not affected. Yandex Cloud told customers of problems with the electricity supply to one data-centre zone.
The fire and suspension were reported by Reuters and acknowledged by Yandex, the operator. The involvement of drones is reported by Reuters; the cited sources do not include an independent technical verification of the weapon.
What remains unknown
The extent of the damage and whether equipment at the site can be restored are not established in the cited sources.
Operator attribution: Suspected. Al Jazeera describes it as a Ukrainian attack. Ukraine did not explicitly confirm the strike in the cited sources. [2]
How the story changed
Reuters reported that drones hit the Sasovo data hub; the site suffered a fire and was suspended. [1]
A day later, Yandex said a second data centre, in the Kaluga region, was struck by drones. [2]
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