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Recent outage for accessing WD remotely (e.g. while travelling)

Hi - Not sure how you observed the downtime for WD remote access, but for me whilst I understand there is a challenge to bring it up again and all hands were busy, now that it is running again, that there was no transparency given on rout cause even after requesting from support, is not increasing my trust that the service will be reliable and not break down again.

Would someone from WD senior mgt reach out to me as your support tells me they don’t know either what happened and how it will be prevented in future?

kind regards,
Robert

If you are talking about the week or so long outage recently, the cause was due to WD being hacked:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/western-digital-reports-network-security-incident-2023-04-03/

Yes, it raises some questions WD should answer to their customers though:

  • have customer data been leaked? what kind?
  • how this situation has been resolved ?
  • is the system really safe now?
  • should we take some actions?
    It is very surprising that WD does not communicate now that the situation has been resolved.
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