The cause of the outage remains unconfirmed, but there has been speculation that it is related to a security incident that was identified on March 26. The attacker is believed to have gained unauthorized access, but Western Digital has declined to comment on this. The company has implied that it is working on understanding the extent of the data breach. Western Digital continues to make every effort to restore all services as quickly as possible and has promised to provide updates as soon as they become available.
