It was BleepingComputer’s Lawrence Abrams that first came across the issue being reported on the Western Digital community forum. The compromise delivers the data slaughter in the form of a factory reset that “appears to erase all data on the device,” according to Western Digital’s advisory.
Western Digital is blaming the remote wipes – which have happened even if the network-attached storage (NAS) devices are behind a firewall or router – on the exploitation of a remote command-execution (RCE) vulnerability. Users can remotely access files and make configuration changes through Western Digital’s cloud infrastructure. The specific model involved in the data-demolition incident is known as My Book Live: a model that uses an Ethernet cable to connect to a local network. It typically plugs into computers via USB. Western Digital’s My Book storage device is designed for consumers and businesses. If you haven’t already, stop reading and go yank your My Book Live storage device offline, lest you join the ranks of those who woke up on Thursday to find that years of data had been wiped clean on devices around the world.
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