WD has just found itself in a dangerous spot: the WD My Book Live NAS is destroying users' data because of "malicious software". So if you own a WD My Book Live NAS or My Book Live Duo, disconnect it ...

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 ...

It’s horrible to think that one could wake up to find full terabytes of data suddenly gone one day due to a technical error or malfunction with a storage device ...

WD is investigating a curious case of missing data from My Book Live backup drives. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Do you own a ...

Nothing is scarier than the idea of losing years' worth of data in a blink of an eye, whether through the loss of physical storage or, in this case, the deletion of said data. Owners of Western ...

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 ...

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 ...

Western Digital My Book Live NAS owners worldwide found that their devices have been mysteriously factory reset and all of their files deleted. WD My Book Live is a network-attached storage device ...

The mass wiping of Western Digital My Book Live storage devices may have been caused by a pair of vulnerabilities, and a leading theory suggests that it was fallout from rival hacking groups working ...