VK services disrupted after drone strike on data center near St. Petersburg
Original title: Russian social media giant VK faces disruptions after data center drone strike
Downdetector logged about 6,600 VK complaints Sunday; NetBlocks said related connectivity fell to 56% of normal.
Thousands of users reported trouble with VKontakte and its music service after a Ukrainian drone strike on a VK facility in Russia’s Leningrad region overnight on October 18. VK confirmed the site was targeted but said services stayed available and did not describe damage. Independent monitors recorded a surge in complaints and a connectivity drop. Fire Point said FP-1 drones hit the data center and claimed significant damage; those damage claims were not independently verified.
Unconfirmed: It is not confirmed that the strike caused the outages, or how many servers were damaged.
- Sboy logged roughly 2,100 complaints; Detector404 still saw issues on Monday.
- Fire Point cited older figures of more than 20,000 servers in 640 racks at the site.
- Earlier in October, Ukrainian forces reportedly struck Yandex data centers three times.
- On Monday, Datagroup said a Russian missile destroyed a Kyiv data center beyond repair.
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3 min read at therecord.mediaThe disruptions began Sunday, when users complained of difficulties loading news feeds, playing music and accessing other features of VK's platforms.
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