Western Digital suffers major data breach in March cyberattack.

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Western Digital has confirmed that hackers stole sensitive personal information, including customer names, billing and shipping addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers, in a cyberattack on March 26th. The company has sent data breach notifications to impacted customers and taken its store offline while investigating the incident. Western Digital warns customers to be vigilant against spear-phishing attacks and expects to restore access to the store on May 15th. The hackers claim to have stolen an SAP Backoffice database containing customer information and are likely still extorting Western Digital.
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