WD's My Cloud outage harshly reiterates the 'backup rule of three'

Last week Western Digital experienced a hack of its systems, prompting the company to pull its services offline—including its My Cloud backup and file access service. First disclosed on April 3, the outage began on April 2, as reported on the WD My Cloud status page. As of April 5, customers have still not received further clarification on when to expect restored access to their data. If you’ve been hit by this service disruption, you’re likely riding it out in one of two ways: frustrating...