# ‘Alice is still chugging along, though she’s showing clear signs of a personality breakdown’: Meduza readers describe how attacks on Yandex data centers are changing their work and daily lives

https://mins.news/en/item/98765

- Meduza, 2026-10-13 21:50 UTC
- World
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/14/alice-is-still-chugging-along-though-she-s-showing-clear-signs-of-a-personality-breakdown-meduza-readers-describe-how-attacks-on-yandex-data-centers-are-changing-their-work-and-daily-lives

> After repeated Russian attacks on data centers in Ukraine, Ukrainian forces struck Yandex data centers in Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir. A major outage disrupted Yandex services and businesses using Yandex Cloud. Readers described problems with taxis, maps, cloud files, and payments, including being unable to access photos or use account funds to pay bills.

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