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Re:Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password u... by zelon88 on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:30AM (#27630532)
I understand the sentiment, but the reality of the situation is if your WD device is hacked while on your home LAN network, you have a much bigger security problem than where your data isn't.
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Re:Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password u... by blincoln on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:07AM (#27631730)
I don't use this specific WD product, but I've had some other network devices automatically and silently add port-forwarding rules to my router using uPnP, even though I never planned to access them from the internet. Maybe that's what happened here?
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