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Beget declares force majeure after massive cyberattack on hosting

Russian hosting provider Beget says a large-scale cyberattack overnight on 2 November disrupted its services, and it has formally declared force majeure toward customers.

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Russian hosting provider Beget has officially declared force majeure after what it describes as a massive cyberattack on its infrastructure overnight on 2 November 2026. The attack disrupted a number of the company's services.

In a notice to customers, the company, registered as OOO Beget, said the circumstances show signs of force majeure under Article 401, paragraph 3, of the Russian Civil Code and the terms of existing contracts. According to the company, the attack and its consequences temporarily prevent it from properly fulfilling part of its service obligations.

What has been restored

Beget says it has already brought dedicated servers that are not administered by the company back online. Restoring its NS (name) servers is the top priority, with an estimated timeframe of the next four to five hours. Work on the mail system is under way in parallel.

On backups, the company says file backups are available for the vast majority of virtual hosting and cloud infrastructure resources. Data recovery continues, but because of the large volumes involved it will take a long time.

What users experienced

Before the statement, customers reported a broad failure of the provider's IT infrastructure. The hosting control panel and customer account area would not open, and connection errors, including 502 Bad Gateway, appeared. Sites hosted with Beget were down, and users reported serious network problems, no access to virtual servers (VPS), disruptions to mail servers (SMTP) and DNS failures.

Beget says it is still assessing the full scale of the attack's consequences and cannot yet give firm dates for full recovery of all services. The force majeure notice matters for business customers because it signals that the company may seek to limit its contractual liability for the outage. The company has promised to share updates as new confirmed information becomes available.

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