External storage options like these made by Western Digital are supposed to assist customers backup their information to an exterior supply. This is finished in order that within the occasion their PC fails, they nonetheless have entry to their information, however sadly for Western Digital’s My Book Live customers, quite a few customers are discovering that their drives have been wiped.

This is in response to posts on the WD forums during which customers are waking up and discovering out that their drives, for some inexplicable cause, have been wiped. According to 1 person, “I have a WD mybook live connected to my home LAN and worked fine for years. I have just found that somehow all the data on it is gone today, while the directories seems there but empty. Previously the 2T volume was almost full but now it shows full capacity.”

According to some, they consider that this may need one thing to do with a manufacturing unit reset that was carried out on their drives a couple of days in the past. This appears to be achieved deliberately versus being some form of bug.

In an announcement made by the company, “Western Digital has determined that some My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices are being compromised through exploitation of a remote command execution vulnerability. In some cases, the attackers have triggered a factory reset that appears to erase all data on the device.”

They are additionally advising prospects to unplug their drives from the web for the time-being whereas they kind it out. We’re unsure if there’s a probability that the info might be recovered, however we’ll wait and see if WD will do one thing about it.

Filed in Gadgets. Read extra about Western Digital. Source: arstechnica