Apr 04, 2023 10:38:00

Western Digital receives a cyber attack and services such as 'My Cloud' are down for more than 24 hours

Western Digital has revealed that its network was compromised and an unauthorized third party accessed multiple corporate systems. Western Digital responded by taking its systems and services offline, and as a result, the company's cloud service '

My Cloud ' has been unavailable for more than 24 hours.

News | Business Wire
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230402005076/en/

Users fume after My Cloud network breach locks them out of their data | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/users-fume-after-my-cloud-network-breach-locks-them-out-of-their-data/

Western Digital suffers cyber attack, shuts down systems | IT PRO
https://www.itpro.co.uk/security/cyber-attacks/370369/western-digital-suffers-cyber-attack-shuts-down-systems

On April 3, 2023, Western Digital announced that on March 26, 2023, Western Digital identified a network security incident involving its own systems, in which an unauthorized third party compromised numerous systems. Confirm that you have access.

In response, Western Digital implemented incident response protocols and initiated an investigation with the assistance of outside security and legal experts. At the same time, he said that he was actively working to restore the affected infrastructure and services by taking protection measures such as taking systems and services offline.

Western Digital said the investigation was still in its early stages, but said, 'Based on our investigations so far, we believe that someone has obtained certain data from our systems. We are working hard,' he said in a statement.

As a result, systems such as My Cloud,

My Cloud OS5 , and SanDisk ibi were unusable, and users who were unaware of the situation were confused even before Western Digital's statement was released.

@westerndigital Hi All, do you know when Mycloud home will be back? It's been down since yesterday afternoon, thanks! pic.twitter.com/hf8Vn9yBbF

—Emi6 (@Emi6MusicDJ) April 3, 2023

The My Cloud status page has also been updated to show that all services are offline.

status.mycloud.com/os4
https://status.mycloud.com/os4

``While we are focused on improving this security incident, this incident has disrupted some of our business operations and may continue to cause disruption,'' Western Digital said.