Your Seagate drive could be a hacker’s haven. Here’s how to protect yourself.

If you’ve got a Seagate drive, you may be vulnerable to attackers who can steal your data, and possibly more. I’ve got details on how to check if you’re vulnerable, and what to do about it.

The hard drive affected are Seagate Wireless Plus Mobile Storage, Seagate Wireless Mobile Storage, and LaCie FUEL. All are wireless storage devices. They have multiple vulnerabilities, including one that lets an attacker gain remote control access to an undocumented, user account. CERT warns that “Seagate wireless hard-drives provides undocumented Telnet services accessible by using the default credentials of ‘root’ as username and the default password.” The vulnerabilities were first discovered by Tangible Security. The firm notes that the holes have been around since October, 2014, and affect drives with the firmware versions 2.2.0.005 and 2.3.0.014.

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