Western Digital

WD My Book Live Mass Wipe: The EOL IoT Disaster

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published: September 5, 2026
Post category:Cloud & Infrastructure Security

Tens of thousands of abandoned Western Digital NAS drives got factory-reset by strangers through a decade-old unpatched flaw. The definitive end-of-life IoT case study.

Western Digital’s My Cloud Outage: Vendor Risk for NAS

Post author:Prabhu Kalyan Samal
Post published: September 5, 2026
Post category:Cloud & Infrastructure Ransomware & Malware Security

WD’s 2023 intrusion took My Cloud services offline mid-extortion claims, locking users out of their own files. Cloud-tethered storage lessons.