Western Digital My Book Live NAS owners worldwide found that their devices have been mysteriously factory reset and all of their files deleted.

(Why would a hacker burn a previously unreported exploit to factory reset the machines after already having root access?) That said, in WD’s security advisory it says that, in some cases, it was ...

Hackers exploited two flaws in event that remotely wiped Western Digital devices Someone in Western Digital also removed code that asked for passwords for factory resets.