{"id":7478,"date":"2021-06-25T09:11:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:04:31","slug":"wd-my-book-live-storage-devices-being-wiped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wd-my-book-live-storage-devices-being-wiped\/","title":{"rendered":"WD My Book Live Storage Devices Being Wiped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following mass incidents of disk wiping that came to light on Western Digital&#8217;s support forum, Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, asked customers to disconnect My Book Live storage devices from the Internet until the company&#8217;s engineers investigated the true cause of the compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While one user had initially started the thread about the data loss, other My Book Live users confirmed the incident, with many reporting that the data loss coincided with a factory reset being performed on their devices.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/06\/mass-data-wipe-in-my-book-devices-prompts-warning-from-western-digital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Digital asks customers to disconnect My Book Live storage devices from the Internet until data compromise is solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7507,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}