“I have just found that somehow all the data on it is gone today, while the directories seem there but empty.
“I have a WD mybook live connected to my home LAN and worked fine for years,” the person who started the thread wrote. So far, there are no reports of deleted data later being restored. The mass incidents of disk wiping came to light in this thread on Western Digital’s support forum. Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending that customers unplug My Book Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world.
