Western Digital suffers network breach and data theft.
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Western Digital has disclosed a network security breach that occurred on March 26, with an unauthorized party gaining access to multiple company systems. The company is working with law enforcement authorities and outside security and forensic experts to investigate the incident. Western Digital has implemented additional security measures to safeguard its systems and operations, which may impact some of its services. The My Cloud service has been down since the attack, affecting multiple users who have reported being unable to access their cloud-hosted media repositories. An update about the My Cloud outage is expected from Western Digital later today.
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