SecurityA third Yandex data center in four days is hit by drones, knocking out YandexGPT and 80+ services

A Yandex data center in Russia went offline after a drone attack, the third strike on the company's facilities in four days.

According to the Kyiv Post, the site in Vladimir's Energetik district was hit early on October 11, and Yandex confirmed operations were halted. Reuters also reported that Yandex said the data center was shut down after a drone attack.

More than 80 services were disrupted, including the Alice voice assistant, Yandex Music, Telemost video calls and Yandex Cloud's YandexGPT API, speech and OCR tools. Users also reported outages in banking and ride-hailing apps.

Yandex sites in Sasovo, Ryazan region, and in Kaluga were hit on October 8 and 9.