Jun 23 15:14:05 MyBookLive shutdown: shutting down for system reboot Jun 23 15:14:05 MyBookLive factoryRestore.sh: begin script: One person posted a log that showed unexplained behavior occurring on Wednesday: Multiple users reported that the data loss coincided with a factory reset that was performed on their devices. “All my data is gone too,” one user soon responded. Other My Book Live users quickly joined the conversation to report that they, too, had experienced precisely the same thing. Previously the 2T volume was almost full but now it shows full capacity.” “I have just found that somehow all the data on it is gone today, while the directories seem there but empty.
“I have a WD mybook live connected to my home LAN and worked fine for years,” the person who started the thread wrote.
So far, there are no reports of deleted data later being restored. The mass incidents of disk wiping came to light in this thread on Western Digital’s support forum. Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending that customers unplug My Book Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world.
