People who own and use a Western Digital My Live Live Live Digital My Live Cloud Storage Device unplug it since possible. As previously indicated by a bleeping computer, a number of people in the world who have the network storage device of the company’s forum to report that all their records had been removed. Data terabytes, years of memories and fierce work months disappear in an instant. Users could not even connect to WD’s cloud infrastructure for diagnosis because their passwords no longer worked.
Several owners examined the cause of the issue and determined that their devices were wiped after receiving a remote order for a factory reset. Orders begin to go out at 15h Wednesday and lasted all night.
WD My Book Live devices connect to the Internet via an Ethernet cable and owners can use it to wirelessly save their computers or to access their files from any device. This is an excellent solution for homes and businesses with multiple computers and phones that perform different operating systems.
As a computer banknotes, the storage solution communicates via My Book Live Cloud servers to provide remote access. It is a former model that has not been updated since 2015, but it is always protected by a firewall. Some of the affected owners concern that Western Digital servers have been hacked, allowing bad actors to send a remote factory reset command to all devices that are connected to them.
However, Western Digital blames the incident on malicious software in a statement that it has issued to resolve the situation. The company said that some reading devices of my book have been compromised, although it did not explain how the actors were able to infiltrate and that the owners should disconnect the internet storage solution for the moment.
