Stefan Mileschin

Memory wiped empty book

Some users who bought an external hard drive that's shaped like a book ended up with "terabytes' worth of data, years of memories and months of hard work vanished in an instant.

"My Books" deletions appear to have happened after receiving a remote command for a factory reset. The commands starting going out at 3PM on Wednesday and lasted throughout the night. One user posted a copy of their log showing how a script was run to shut down their storage device for a factory restore.

Western Digital said some My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices are being compromised through the exploitation of a remote command execution vulnerability.

“The log files we have reviewed show that the attackers directly connected to the affected My Book Live devices from a variety of IP addresses in different countries. This indicates that the affected devices were directly accessible from the Internet, either through direct connection or through port forwarding that was enabled either manually or automatically via UPnP”, the company said.

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