: Western Digital says hack exposed personal customer info, those affected alerted

Western Digital Corp. WDC said Friday a recent hack of its systems contained personal customer information, and that those affected have been alerted. Western Digital said it discovered unauthorized access “to a number of the company’s systems,” on March 26, and on April 2 disclosed the incident, disconnected its systems from the public internet and investigated with forensic experts. “In collaboration with outside forensic experts, we confirmed that an unauthorized party obtained a copy of a Western Digital database used for our online store that contained some personal information of our online store customers,” the company said. “This information included customer names, billing and shipping addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers,” Western Digital said. “In addition, the database contained, in encrypted format, hashed and salted passwords and partial credit card numbers.” The company also said it was “aware that other alleged Western Digital information has been made public,” and said it was “investigating the validity of this data and will continue reporting our findings as appropriate.”

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