Western Digital Recommended users urgently disable WD My Book Live storage devices from the Internet due to Appearance Mass complaints about the removal of all the contents of the drives. At the moment, it is already known that as a result of the activities of an unknown malicious software, a remote initiation of the device reset to its original state with cleaning the entire contents saved on the content drive.
WD MY Book Live supports Connecting to Ethernet and work in the form of a network storage with the ability to remote access to your files and configuration change through the Western Digital cloud service. Western Digital has stated that at the moment the facts indicating that the attack is performed through the compromise of the cloud service of the company, and not finite user devices. WD My Book Live repository support was discontinued in 2015 and since the firmware updates were not available.