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

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

arstechnica.com

Help! All data in mybook live gone and owner password unknown

I have a WD mybook live connected to my home LAN and worked fine for years. I have just found that somehow all the data on it is gone today, while the directories seems there but empty. Previously the 2T volume was almost full but now it shows full capacity.
The even strange thing is when I try to log into the control UI for diagnosis I was-only able to get to this landing page with an input box for “owner password”. I have tried the default password “admin” and also what I could set for it with no luck. There seems to be no change to retrieve or reset password on this landing page either.
Could anyone help to find what was going on to this drive? I am stuck at emptied data on it now…Thanks in dadvance!

Help! All data in mybook live gone and owner password unknown

I have a WD mybook live connected to my home LAN and worked fine for years. I have just found that somehow all the data on it is gone today, while the directories seems there but empty. Previously the 2T volume was almost full but now it shows full capacity. The even strange thing is when I try...

community.wd.com

 

[kruis]

Unplug your WD My Book Live, or you might find your drive’s data wiped

Users report finding that their NAS had been factory reset

www.theverge.com

 

[nush]

Ohhh shit.

 

[SidViscous]

Very suspicious, last firmware update was 2015 so if this is a hack/exploit someone sat on it for years.

I wonder if the McAfee "killswitch" stuff was stored on these

 

[eddie4]

This is why you build your own NAS and configure your network correctly.

 

[CloudNull]

This is why you build your own NAS and configure your network correctly.

I just setup my own NAS to replace the WD my book which has all my old wedding photos and shit stored on it. Luckily the my book hasn’t been connected to the net in year. Seems I might have dodged a bullet.

 

[eddie4]

I just setup my own NAS to replace the WD my book which has all my old wedding photos and shit stored on it. Luckily the my book hasn’t been connected to the net in year. Seems I might have dodged a bullet.

My NAS has no need for internet access, I just have my subsonic server accessing the music on there so that I can listen to it on my phone.

 

[RaptorGTA]

My NAS has no need for internet access, I just have my subsonic server accessing the music on there so that I can listen to it on my phone.

But how many Boxxies are you behind?

 

[ManaByte]

Why the flying fuck would you put your personal files on a HDD that's connected to an external network?

 

[AlteredForms]

Surprised to see Western Digital crap the bed as their products are always top notch with stellar customer support. Seagate on the other hand are always drowning in hardware failures and complaints (pun intended).

 

[MilkLizard]

Why the flying fuck would you put your personal files on a HDD that's connected to an external network?

So hackers can steal them duh...

 

[Pagusas]

Well this thread made me double check all my security on my Synology NAS. For sure turning off quickconnect and any port forwarding on it now... I wish I could completely disconnect it from any internet connection, but my security cameras all run through it and I need the ability to receive push notifications on alerts. Plus it backs itself up to the cloud every night, I'd hate to lose that functionality. Ugh.

 

[Forsete]

Thanks, powering off mine (mine is not connected to the cloud though, but I'll wait for WD to figure things out. You never know).
I have since built a TrueNAS but I have some old files on my WD.