Subj : Western Digital says it's finally ready to
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon May 08 2023 14:45:03

Western Digital says it's finally ready to 
finish restoring all your online services

Date:
Mon, 08 May 2023 13:20:46 +0000

Description:
Following a data breach earlier this year, Western Digital is finally 
bringing the last of its services back online.

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Customers have been left without access to some Western Digital online 
services for several weeks as it has scrambled to ascertain the depth and 
severity of a network security incident in the closing week of March 2023. 

Access to the MyCloud service was restored around two weeks after the company 
sounded the alarm bellsand started its investigation. Still, until then, many 
customers were having to either get to their files via local access , or not 
at all. 

Even so, other parts of the companys cloud operations have remained affected 
as it proactively disconnected [its] systems and services from the public 
Internet. Marking its final online service to return to operation, WDs online 
store is expected to go live once more in the week of May 15. Western Digital 
is nearly back online 

With help from third-party forensics, WD has confirmed that an unauthorized 
party obtained a copy of a Western Digital database which it uses for its 
online store. 

As such, unauthorized party obtained a copy of a Western Digital database are 
all said to have been accessed, as well as hashed and salted passwords and 
partial credit card numbers in encrypted format. Read more 

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The hard drive maker promises to communicate directly with affected 
customers, though its unclear precisely what they should do moving forward. 

The company said in a statement : Our factories are and have been operational 
throughout this incident and we are shipping products to meet our customers 
needs. 

Customers still using local access are being reminded that My Cloud services 
have been back online for several weeks enabling easier online access. Boost 
your protection with the best firewalls and best endpoint protection



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/western-digital-says-its-finally-ready-to-finis
h-restoring-its-online-services


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