# Yandex says 2.84% of customer data cannot be restored after drone strikes

_Published Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM EST · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Yandex Cloud says 2.84% of customer data cannot be restored because of critical equipment damage after drone strikes on its data centers, Tom's Hardware reported. The company says it restored access to more than 97% of customer data and that customers using its backup tools lost no data.

Yandex has enabled backups by default for all newly created virtual machines. It is also opening the ru-central1-f availability zone to improve resilience, though the new location initially offers a more limited range of services.

## Sources

- [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russias-google-says-nearly-3-percent-of-its-data-was-lost-after-crippling-ukraine-drone-strikes-opens-secret-availability-zones-yandex-cloud-blames-lack-of-user-backups-for-lost-data-now-forcibly-applies-backup-rules-by-default)

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Canonical: https://techandbusiness.org/newswire/Ows6uxfaloGLBZLN1cbMvi
Published: 2026-11-12T21:11:35.602Z
Story chronology: 2026-11-12T21:00:00.000Z
Retrieved: 2026-11-12T22:44:27.244Z
Publisher: Tech & Business (techandbusiness.org)