WD’s cloud service deleting data off of My Book Live HDs

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Yikes. I’ve always been wary of storage that leans to heavily on the cloud — any cloud. I use cloud services, of course. But whenever possible I try to sync to multiple locations and back up.

This is pretty interesting. It appears there were two unrelated vulnerabilities. Somebody used one of them to botnet a bunch of My Book Live devices. A second hacker used the other vulnerability to wipe the devices, probably in an effort to disrupt the botnet:

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That is a very scary thought