PaymentsYandex Pay users lose access to balances and transfers after a drone strike on a data centre
- Yandex data centres hit
- 3 of 6
- in four days
- Partly restored
- 13 Oct
- two days after the outage
A drone strike on 11 October shut down Yandex's data centre in Vladimir, east of Moscow, and knocked out Yandex Pay along with other Yandex services. Dmitry Pirogov, head of Yandex's fintech division, said many users still couldn't check balances, pay or transfer money, bne IntelliNews reported.
Yandex Pay was only partly restored on 13 October, Meduza reported. The Moscow Times said Pay and Yandex Cloud didn't appear fully restored by the evening of 14 October.
The Vladimir strike was the third on a Yandex data centre in four days, after sites in Sasovo and the Kaluga region. Readers told Meduza they couldn't reach their money or make loan and rent payments during the outage.