Yandex
Russian multinational technology company
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| August 2024 | The company was accused of collaborating with the FSB to direct users to fake websites for the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps, collecting data from potential supporters. |
| July 2024 | Nebius Group sold Yandex's Russian assets to a group of Russian investors for US$5.3 billion, following international sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and restrictions on foreign ownership. |
| January 2024 | Yandex received 36,540 requests from the Russian government to disclose user data, a 12% increase from the prior year. |
| 2023 | Yandex Taxi reported an 86.3% market share in Uzbekistan, demonstrating its dominance in the regional ridesharing market. |
| July 2023 | Kinopoisk, a Yandex subsidiary, was fined 1 million rubles for showing films demonstrating non-traditional sexual relations. |
| June 2023 | Yandex was fined 2 million roubles by a Moscow court for repeatedly refusing to share user information with the Federal Security Service. |
| May 2023 | Yandex launched YandexGPT, a neural network analogous to ChatGPT, and implemented it in the virtual assistant Alice. |
| January 25 2023 | A 44 GB archive containing Yandex's source code was leaked and shared on BreachForums via BitTorrent, exposing sensitive internal technical information. |
| June 2022 | Arkady Volozh resigned as CEO and from the board of directors. |
| April 2022 | CEO Elena Bunina resigned and moved to Israel. |
| March 2022 | Tigran Khudaverdyan resigned as executive director and deputy CEO after being sanctioned by the European Union for manipulating search results. |
| February 2022 | Upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yandex added an online banner warning that some search results may contain inaccurate information. |
| April 2021 | Yandex was accused by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of promoting its own products in search results. |
| February 2021 | Yandex admitted a system administrator enabled unauthorized access, resulting in a data breach that compromised nearly 5,000 Yandex email inboxes. |
| June 2019 | Yandex refused a request by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to surrender encryption keys for its e-mail service and cloud storage, arguing it would compromise user privacy. |
| November 2018 | Continued cyberattack on Yandex targeting its R&D unit, with sophisticated Regin malware attempting to compromise the company's technical infrastructure and user authentication systems. |
| October 2018 | Yandex was targeted in a significant cyberattack using Regin malware, which aimed to steal technical information about user authentication from the company's research and development unit. Kaspersky Lab later attributed the hacks to Five Eyes intelligence agencies. |
| February 2018 | Yandex acquired Uber's businesses in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus and Georgia. |
| October 2017 | Yandex introduced its intelligent personal assistant, Alisa (Alice), for Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows. |
| June 1 2017 | Yandex closed its offices in Kyiv and Odesa after the Security Service of Ukraine raided the offices, accusing the company of illegally collecting Ukrainian users' data and sending it to Russian security agencies. |
| May 2017 | Yandex was banned in Ukraine by Presidential Decree No. 133/2017. |
| May 24 2011 | Yandex N.V. raised $1.3 billion in an initial public offering on NASDAQ, the largest dot-com IPO since Google's in 2004. |
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