factory reset incident was in 2021, certain WD NAS devices exposed to the internet had an unauthenticated endpoint and someone decided to “be a jerk” and basically hit up the entire IP space looking for these exposed NAS devices and “curl /path/to/pleaseresetanddeletealldata” to each one of them

unrelated to this year’s outage (some claim WD got ransomwared internally) but still shows poor practices in general