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An attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones on infrastructure in Vladimir led to a shutdown of the Yandex data center and a power outage for five thousand residents.
The Yandex company made an official statement guaranteeing the complete safety of the financial resources of users of the Yandex Pay service after the attacks on the data center in Vladimir.
The appeal emphasizes that clients' monetary assets are not stored directly in the data center. This room houses exclusively servers that ensure the technical functioning of the services. Information about the status of each account is reliably protected: records are duplicated and stored in the form of several copies on various independent sites.
However, the company acknowledges that currently a number of users still experience technical difficulties when trying to check their balance, pay for a purchase or make a money transfer. Representatives of Yandex noted that technical specialists continue to actively work to fully restore the normal functioning of the service.
On the night of Sunday, October 11, drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attacked infrastructure in the suburbs of Vladimir. As a result, the work of the Yandex data center was stopped, and five thousand residents were left without electricity.
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In October, Ukrainian drones attacked three Yandex data centers in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir, damaging the company’s infrastructure and supercomputers. The incidents caused service disruptions and a sharp increase in demand for mobile data centers in Russia.
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