Hackers steal and threaten to publish Western Digital’s 10 TB data

Hackers have reportedly encrypted files belonging to Western Digital and have accessed customers’ data, according to the publication Techcrunch, which spoke to one of the attackers. The hackers said that they downloaded a program called progressor from WD’s internal network and gained access to security certificates with digital signatures of application developers. They also anonymously requested a “minimum of 8-digit sum” in ransom payment, and threatened to start publishing the stolen data online if WD ignored them. Western Digital announced earlier this month that it had suffered an unauthorized access intrusion on March 26. A file was shared with the media containing telephone numbers, screenshots from a system administrator account, and information that the hackers had stolen data from the firm’s SAP Backoffice. WD has declined to comment on these reports or confirm the scale of the leak, and hackers claim the firm has not been in touch with them.