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Yandex shut its Sasovo data centre and shifted workloads after an attack

Event: 8 October 2026 · Reported: 8 October 2026; article updated at 19:59 Moscow time

Yandex shut its Sasovo data centre after an attack on 8 October. Yandex Cloud’s ru-central1-b group of servers hosting customer applications became unavailable. The operator reported shifting workloads.

At 01:44 Moscow time Cloud Alerts reported a power problem. Yandex later confirmed a drone attack, fire and shutdown of the data centre: a facility housing servers. It reported no injuries.

At 08:26 other zones worked, with limits on new resources. At 13:27 Yandex 360 told Kommersant Mail problems were resolved.

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