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grrowl
on June 24, 2021
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WD My Book users wake up to find their data delete...
I would hope (but I do not expect) Western Digital to recover the data for the end users. This is a really bad situation for some.
munk-a
on June 24, 2021
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The article mentions that a factory reset was performed on the devices. Factory resets usually leave the data in a readable state depending on how paranoid the developers coding them are - you're not usually going to run shred -n 11
crazysim
on June 25, 2021
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I don't know whether to hope the factory reset resets by keys erasure or not. If it doesn't, the affected users stand a chance for recovery.
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