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Nearly 3% of Cloud Customer Data Permanently Lost After Drone Strikes, Yandex Says
On Tuesday, Yandex reported it restored access to around 97% of cloud customer data affected by Ukrainian drone strikes last month, though the remaining 3% is permanently lost.
Disruptions followed Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers between Oct. 8 and Oct. 11, impacting government agencies and private firms relying on the platform's infrastructure.
The company attributed permanent loss to "critical damage to equipment" and a failure by some cloud customers to maintain external backups on the platform.
Yandex later said it had restored "key features" for users and businesses; specialized supercomputers at two targeted facilities survived and were transferred to secure sites.
Engineers are redistributing computing workloads across a decentralized network throughout Russia to reduce reliance on single locations, and Yandex updated its platform to enable automatic data backups by default.
Russians are complaining about the voice assistant from technology company Yandex, which has become "stupid, stutters, has a bad accent, makes mistakes, is more irritable, freezes or doesn't respond at all" after Ukrainian attacks on the company's data centers, The Moscow Times reported on Tuesday.
Russian technology company Yandex has reported that access has been restored to 97.16% of customer data on its cloud service, Yandex Cloud, following damage to its data centers in drone attacks.