Folks using certain Western Digital (WD) storage devices are being urged to disconnect them while the company investigates reports of sudden data deletion. The worrying development came to light on ...

Western Digital’s popular My Book Live hard drives are being deleted remotely by an unknown attacker, according to the company. And there’s not much anyone can do at this point but unplug their drives ...

For those whose internet access isn’t reliable enough to stick everything on the cloud, or for those who simply don’t trust their data to live anywhere but on their desk, Western Digital has updated ...

My Book Live owners around the world are reporting their devices have been purged of all data, and Western Digital is advising that everyone disconnect their drives from the internet for now. Share on ...

If you own one of Western Digital’s (WD) My Book Live external hard drives, you should put this article down and go unplug it. Take it off your home network, cut the power entirely, whatever you have ...

A hot potato: Imagine the horror of waking up one day and discovering that your cloud-connected external backup drive has lost all data and factory reset itself. Unfortunately, that's exactly what's ...

Some people who own Western Digital My Book Live external hard drive lost all of their data due to a compromise. Amazon screenshot Users of some Western Digital external hard drive devices are losing ...

Western Digital My Book Live was hit with an attack last week that led to countless drives being factory reset, resulting in petabytes of lost data. Originally, reports showed that the main attack ...

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