bgelfand Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 According toe Ars Technica, it appears that a WD developer commented out the code that would require a password to enter a reset and erase command from the internet. This resulted in petabytes of user data being destroyed. Not to mention that many of the devices were made part of a botnet. Oops? LINK: Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices | Ars Technica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddler4 Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Well, one more general moral of the story is that you should never have a single copy of any file that matters to you. I have three copies of all of my photos, two local and one in the cloud. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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