People with diabetes in Russia have run into problems accessing glucose monitoring data after attacks on Yandex data centers

People with diabetes in Russia have run into problems with access to glucose monitoring data after attacks on Yandex data centers

As The Insider writes, in Russia, attacks by Ukrainian drones on Yandex data centers have caused disruptions in continuous glucose monitoring services used by people with diabetes.

For example, Sinocare, the company that makes iCan sensors, reported today that its provider is having problems; because of them, there may be difficulties activating new sensors and using the apps. In the official support chat, Russian customers were told that the problems were connected to Yandex.

Users complain that the iCan 3 app does not launch even after being reinstalled, and that remote monitoring on a parent's phone is malfunctioning. In addition, since October 8, the first day of the attacks on the data centers, the Nightscout.Online, Autotune Pro, and DiaMate bot services have been unavailable; their operator explained this as an incident at a Yandex data center.

Continuous monitoring sensors warn about high or low blood sugar and help prevent hypoglycemia, a critical drop in blood glucose. iCan sensors were previously included in the Ministry of Digital Development's “whitelists”; at the time, the ministry said that all glucose monitoring systems on the list process data only inside Russia.

🔵Against the backdrop of the Ukrainian attacks, Yandex had earlier reached an agreement with cloud providers VK Cloud, Selectel, and K2Cloud on accelerated placement of the data and services of affected clients, the company reported.

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