Wd my book live hacking

The Duo uses this mode to protect your data from loss if one hard drive fails. To view the RAID configuration, from a command shell:. First hard drive. Second hard drive Duo only.

RAID mirror partitions. The root folder contains the operating system files and packages. The hackers had found a way to exploit a command injection vulnerability in the device, thereby resetting them and causing complete data loss.

Several users have reported that these attacks have caused substantial data loss, as there was no data in the devices when checked later. According to the WD official advisory, a review of the log files taken from some of these affected devices reveal that the attackers had directly connected to the affected MyBook Live devices from various IP addresses across different countries.

Reportedly, these MyBook Live storage devices have been wiped and reformatted with the Ext4 file system. Irrespective of factory reset or device formatting, you can recover your data from the hacked WD MyBook Live devices.

You may have two hard drives if you are using a MyBook Live Duo device. The device cannot connect with a Windows PC directly, and therefore, you need to remove the drive s from the enclosure to connect them to a host system for data recovery. Next, proceed with the data recovery steps using Stellar Data Recovery Professional Edition, as follows:. Caution: Do not choose the same storage drive or location to save the recoverable files.

This could overwrite the existing data, resulting in permanent loss. You need to choose a different location or storage device to save the recovered data. If you use a Mac system, you can download Stellar Data Recovery Professional software for Mac and recover the data using the steps described earlier. Alternatively, you can download a free trial of Stellar Photo Recovery software for Mac and attempt recovery of images and videos lost after hacking and factory resetting of your WD MyBook Live device.

Maybe this cause a problem. You can try remove ubuntu repo and try reinstall the package. I tried again and made sure to only include lenny packages. I still get a lot of errors like this one:. I kept trying different. So that got me thinking all of my problems which none of the forums like this one seem familiar with might have something to do with my firmware version.

It loads but then none of the menu links take me to the menu pages, it just keeps redirecting me back to the UI homepage. Any thoughts on my theory or plan? I followed these instructions exactly except my sources. I think I did something wrong and now the UI is acting very weird. Retry your last operation.

If the error persists, contact WD Support for assistance. Or do a factory reset from SSH? To revert to original state, you have to download. Still menu errors, do you know where to find a. Looks like the. WD has removed the firmware download. Are you able to access upgrade page from web UI? If yes, execute this command before hand:. Nice work. Sorry my question and my english too, all this work is done or can be done with the disc via USB adapter? Great hacks. How I can undo until everything to the beginning?

You can try reset your device. Press reset button with paper clip. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. My best conclusion is that some third party must have been using my My Book device as a server, as they uploaded over 30GB in a couple days, while I was away for the weekend. The uploading stopped as soon as I disconnected the My Book.

Access must have been through that old HP laptop, so I will stop using it in future, or run virus checks if I ever do need to use it. When users are accessing their My Book Lives or My Clouds from outside their home network, they are usually using our remote servers to do the accessing. I added that if you are using the My Cloud Desktop app to access your My Book Live from inside your network, you are going out over the internet, and then back into your network from our servers. One of our agents would have to take a look at that to know for sure.

For my home internet broadband package, I have a monthly allownance of 30GB. The ISP could monitor my data usage based on downloading, and uploading. They reported that my monthly allowance had been used up as a result of steady uploading of significant amounts of data over the previous few days. On the advice of the ISP, I disconnected devices from my router, one at a time, to see when the uploading stopped. As soon as I disconnected the MyBook Live from the router, the uploading stopped.

So this suggested some third party using my home network for some unknown purpose. Sure enough, a malware scan of an old laptop I had on, showed some items being quarantined.

I really like my MyBook Live, it makes my home network really functional for storing media all in one place.