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

  • 25 June 2021
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Storage-device maker advises customers to unplug My Book Lives from the Internet ASAP.

DAN GOODIN - 6/24/2021

 

Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending 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.

 

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I always wipe any external HD clean from the manufactures software that may be on the HD before using it to backup my files. I never use their software.

I used WD My Book may years ago on my Windows Desktop. Now I’m using 2 CLEAN HD’s from Seagate on the Mac. One for SuperDuper and the other for Time Machine.

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