Data-storage giant Western Digital violated an Austrian physicist's patent rights and owes the owner of his patents more than $262 million in damages, a jury in California federal court has ...

Western Digital appears to have taken down its My Cloud consumer cloud backup and storage service after an attacker gained access to its systems on March 26. WD's online store is down, too.

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Western Digital is splitting into two companies: one for its flash business and another for its hard drive storage products.

In fact, Western Digital doesn’t even bother to provide a 1TB option with the My Passport anymore, starting with a minimum of 2TB for $84.99/£75.99, with 4TB, 5TB and 6TB models also available.