Russian Courts Paralyzed by Yandex Cloud Outages After Drone Attacks – Vyorstka
Dozens of hearings were postponed as court software failed and judges lost access to case files after drone strikes hit Yandex data centers.
- Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers beginning October 8 forced Russian arbitration courts to postpone hearings and freeze legal filings, according to the independent outlet Verstka reported Friday.
- PravoTech, the service provider for the Electronic Justice software package, confirmed a "mass outage" at the Yandex Cloud main data center, preventing courts from holding online hearings or processing documents in the "Moy Arbitr" system.
- Outages affected arbitration courts across at least nine regions, including Sverdlovsk and Smolensk, where judges were forced to pause proceedings because case files failed to open and rulings could not be downloaded.
- Although basic search features were restored Monday, Yandex services remained slow as of Friday evening, while the Kremlin sought to play down the attacks' effects on banking and retail operations.
- The court system failure reflects a wider wave of digital disruptions across Russia following Ukrainian drone attacks on three of Yandex's six data centers, impacting major retail and financial services.
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Russian Courts Paralyzed by Yandex Cloud Outages After Drone Attacks – Vyorstka
Russian arbitration courts have been forced to postpone hearings and freeze legal filings following widespread system failures caused by Ukrainian drone attacks on Yandex data centers, exiled outlet Vyorstka reported Friday.
The Russian tech company Yandex dominates the market. This is politically intentional – and makes Yandex a formidable destination for Ukraine.
Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Russian court operations
Dozens of court hearings in Russia were disrupted due to “technical malfunctions” after strikes by Ukraine’s armed forces on Yandex data centers, the independent Russian news outlet Verstka reported.
On the Russian side, an oil refinery and Yandex technology data center were targeted by the attack. In Ukraine, several areas of Kiev were left without electricity following Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
Fires lit up the sky near Moscow on Friday night after Ukrainian strikes, reports the news portal The Kyiv Independent.
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