Beget, one of Russia's largest web hosting and cloud providers, has been dealing since Monday with a broad outage it attributes to a cyberattack. It began around 5 a.m. Moscow time on November 2: customer websites, email and DNS stopped working, and for the first hours the company spoke only of a 'major incident'.
Beget later said it was a massive attack on its infrastructure and invoked force majeure under the Russian Civil Code, telling customers it temporarily cannot meet some contractual obligations. According to Recorded Future News, the company said attackers reached systems used to manage its infrastructure and ran scripts designed to erase data, but found no sign customer data was downloaded or altered.
Recovery is not complete; Russian reports say DNS, mail and data are still being restored. Beget has not said how many customers were affected or when full service will return. No one has claimed the attack.
The case shows a risk that is easy to forget: when one hosting provider goes down, thousands of small businesses disappear at once, and if attackers target the management layer, backups held by the same provider may be at risk too. The basic advice stands: keep an independent backup outside your host.
