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Yandex says 2.84% of Cloud customer data cannot be restored after strikes
Yandex said Tuesday it restored access to 97.16% of Yandex Cloud customer data after October attacks on its data centers, and that 2.84% cannot be restored, Meduza reported.
Yandex said Tuesday it had restored access to 97.16% of customer data in Yandex Cloud after attacks on its data centers and that 2.84% cannot be restored1.
The company's press service attributed the unrestorable share to critical damage to equipment and to those customers having no backups on the platform1.
"Engineers managed to restore access to 97.16% of customer data in Yandex Cloud after the attacks," Yandex said, according to Meduza1.
Yandex said customers who used its cloud backup tools lost no data1.
Meduza, citing a Yandex Cloud report on 2025 results, said the lost data could amount to roughly 100,000 terabytes and tens of millions of files1.
Ukraine began striking Yandex data centers in October1. Over about a week, Ukrainian drones attacked three of the company's six data centers, in Sasovo in the Ryazan region, Kaluga and Vladimir, Meduza reported1.
Kommersant, cited by Meduza, reported that replacing damaged equipment could take about six months1. After the attacks, Yandex moved all three of its supercomputers to a new location and withdrew its annual revenue forecast, Meduza said1.
Reuters also reported the company's account that nearly 3% of cloud customer data was lost after the attacks; its full article was not independently readable for this filing2.
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2 sourcesYandex admits it cannot restore nearly 3% of customer data in Yandex Cloud after Ukrainian attacks
The company statement on unrestorable data, missing platform backups, and October drone strikes on three of six centers.
Yandex said it restored access to 97.16% of Yandex Cloud customer data and cannot restore 2.84% after Ukrainian attacks on its data centers.
Russia's Yandex says nearly 3% of cloud customer data lost after attacks
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