# Internet connectivity disruption in Kazakhstan

**Country:** 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan (KZ)
**Date:** 2026-05-03
**Type:** Mixed
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** active

## Summary

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Kazakhstan. 16 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 75%
- Measurements: 16
- Anomaly Rate: 62.8%

## Evidence

- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Qostanay
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Aqtöbe
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Almaty
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Astana
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Aqmola
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Mangghystau
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Almaty City
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Zhambyl
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Qyzylorda
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for South Kazakhstan
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for North Kazakhstan
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Pavlodar
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Qaraghandy
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for Atyrau
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for West Kazakhstan
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **IODA** (alert): IODA detected critical level outage for East Kazakhstan
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [IODA live national dashboard (not a per-event permalink)](https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/KZ)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for chat.openai.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for chatgpt.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for claude.ai
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for facebook.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for gemini.google.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 7/7 probes anomalous (100.0%) for getlantern.org
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for google.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for huggingface.co
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for instagram.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for medium.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for openai.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 7/7 probes anomalous (100.0%) for protonvpn.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 7/7 probes anomalous (100.0%) for psiphon.ca
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for reddit.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 7/7 probes anomalous (100.0%) for signal.org
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for substack.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for telegram.org
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for theguardian.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 12/12 probes anomalous (100.0%) for tiktok.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 6/6 probes anomalous (100.0%) for tumblr.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for twitter.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for whatsapp.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 5/5 probes anomalous (100.0%) for youtube.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (timeout): 7/11 probes blocked (63.6%) for getlantern.org
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 84%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (timeout): 6/10 probes blocked (60.0%) for protonvpn.com
  - Observed: 2026-05-03
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [CensoredPlanet raw-data portal (no per-measurement permalink)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)

## What we cannot say

- **Who caused it** — measurement data alone does not attribute the interference to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- **Intent** — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.

## Data Sources

ioda, censoredplanet

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Internet connectivity disruption in Kazakhstan [KZ-2026-0078]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/KZ-2026-0078

---
*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-08-05*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: KZ-2026-0078*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/KZ-2026-0078*