For users who need access to lots of data, they can be cheaper than a cloud storage subscription, and provide full control over the data. While the affected devices were sold with storage from 1 to 8 TB, Western Digital currently sells models with up to 36 TB storage. Unlike, say, an iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive account, these devices can hold large amounts of data, limited only by the size of the hard drives they contain. These devices are a type of network-attached storage device (NAS), which are popular because they offer large amounts of storage that is accessible remotely. These issues affect a number of Western Digital My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices:
Also, many users do not want to upgrade to this new version because it is not working well. While this vulnerability has been fixed in a recent version of the newer devices’ operating system, many users cannot upgrade to this new version, because their devices do not support it. Hackers took advantage of a bug in the devices’ firmware of certain older devices, along with a zero-day vulnerability in some newer devices. In the past few weeks, many users of Western Digital network-connected storage devices have found that their data was remotely wiped by hackers. Security & Privacy Got a WD My Book Live device? Your data is at risk-here’s what to do
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