[ConcernedCitizen]

There is currently an unknown threat actor remote wiping any internet-facing My Drive devices.

On its website, Western Digital advised customers to disconnect their My Book Live devices to prevent further attacks while the company investigates the mass wiping.

In an email, Western Digital officials wrote: "The incident is under active investigation from Western Digital. We do not have any indications of a breach or compromise of Western Digital cloud services or systems. We have determined that some My Book Live devices have been compromised by a threat actor. In some cases, this compromise has led to a factory reset that appears to erase all data on the device. The My Book Live device received its final firmware update in 2015. At this time, we are recommending that customers disconnect their My Book Live devices from the Internet to protect their data on the device. We have issued the following statement to our customers and will provide updates to this thread when they are available: https://community.wd.com/t/action-requir...duo/268147" - Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/...n-digital/

[mothered]

Western Digital advised customers to disconnect their My Book Live devices

Apart from businesses who rely on remote connections to access and transfer data, I cannot fathom why any home user would risk their sensitive data by connecting their device online.

The equation Is pretty simple - keep It within the confines of your local environment.

[ConcernedCitizen]

Western Digital advised customers to disconnect their My Book Live devices

Apart from businesses who rely on remote connections to access and transfer data, I cannot fathom why any home user would risk their sensitive data by connecting their device online.

The equation Is pretty simple - keep It within the confines of your local environment.

How else do you backup your servers to your NAS without it being networked? I use mine for hybrid cloud backups and site backups (also personal storage). I guess you could keep it offline like a RAID5 or just external storage container but that's not nearly as useful. You can run docker containers, websites, virtual machines, and red teams (or blue teams if that's your thing). You can backup your videos/documents to your NAS and have it upload to several places with a snap. I mean, why wouldn't you connect it to the internet or at least have it reachable from your VPN? Oh yeah...

Because nothing is bulletproof and the internet is a scary place if you don't know what you're doing.

[mothered]

How else do you backup your servers to your NAS without it being networked?

In future, be sure to thoroughly read my replies -of which my post below answers your question.

Apart from businesses who rely on remote connections to access and transfer data

Because nothing is bulletproof and the internet is a scary place if you don't know what you're doing.

Which further supports my view on the matter:

I cannot fathom why any home user would risk their sensitive data by connecting their device online.

[ConcernedCitizen]

How else do you backup your servers to your NAS without it being networked?

In future, be sure to thoroughly read my replies -of which my post below answers your question.

Apart from businesses who rely on remote connections to access and transfer data

Because nothing is bulletproof and the internet is a scary place if you don't know what you're doing.

Which further supports my view on the matter:

I cannot fathom why any home user would risk their sensitive data by connecting their device online.

I'm just not afraid because I know how to secure network-facing devices like a NAS, or whatever. Anyway these days I mostly use it for Plex and remote editing. The rest of it is for storage and redundant backups for, as mentioned, web server content and VM's. I asked specifically why you don't think you can do this. If you trust yourself and you can secure it then no problem. Otherwise, sure, if it's questionably setup then I wouldn't recommend doing anything like remote NAS. Keep it local if you're not sure. I use mine a lot for work stuff and I often need to access my things from other places, so I've made sure to research everything I need to be 100% sure.