[German]Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital admitted to a cyber attack on its IT networks on April 3, 2023. An unauthorized person was able to gain access to the internal IT networks probably already in March this year. The whole thing was noticed on March 26, 2023, the company announced in a message to the public. Whether data has been leaked is currently unknown.
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The manufacturer of storage systems for computers (hard disk) Western Digital has confirmed in this press release that its network systems were affected by a hacker attack. The incident was detected by Western Digital on March 26, 2023 and was made public as a network security incident on Western Digital's systems. A third party gained unauthorized access to a number of the company's systems.
After the incident was discovered, the company responded to the incident and took action. An investigation has also been launched with the help of leading external security and forensics experts. This investigation is still in its early stages and Western Digital is working with law enforcement agencies, according to company sources. The wording:
The company is taking proactive measures to secure its business operations, including shutting down systems and services, and will take further steps as appropriate. As part of its remediation efforts, Western Digital is actively working to restore affected infrastructure and services. Based on the investigation to date, the Company believes that the unauthorized party obtained certain data from its systems and is working to understand the nature and scope of that data.
may indicate both a hack and a ransomware attack. Here, the company is keeping a low profile and will provide an update in due course. In any case, it is the case that the incident has led to an interruption of parts of the company's business operations and may continue to affect these operations.
Colleagues at Bleeping Computer report here that Western Digital's My Cloud services are down – which probably has to do with the services being shut down. Since Sunday, April 2, 2023, users of Western Digital's My Cloud network-attached storage (NAS) service have reported that they have been unable to access their cloud-hosted media storage. As of this writing, the service status in question is still set to Disrupted.
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