Article 5KGC4 “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

by
Dan Goodin
from Ars Technica - All content on (#5KGC4)
western-digital-my-book-1-800x374.jpeg

Enlarge (credit: Western Digital)

Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending that customers unplug My Book Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world.

The mass incidents of disk wiping came to light in this thread on Western Digital's support forum. So far, there are no reports of deleted data later being restored.

All my data is gone

I have a WD mybook live connected to my home LAN and worked fine for years," the person who started the thread wrote. I have just found that somehow all the data on it is gone today, while the directories seem there but empty. Previously the 2T volume was almost full but now it shows full capacity."

Read 10 remaining paragraphs | Comments

index?i=hl7cKQfls4M:xN03xsbx8gQ:V_sGLiPB index?i=hl7cKQfls4M:xN03xsbx8gQ:F7zBnMyn index?d=qj6IDK7rITs index?d=yIl2AUoC8zA
External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index
Feed Title Ars Technica - All content
Feed Link https://arstechnica.com/
Reply 0 comments