Today I am disappointed and disgusted to say that #WesternDigital have sent me an email that has very important content in it, but it's inaccessible.
They've suffered a data breach, but the information about said breach has been put into the email as an image.
A #ScreenReader user without some level of tech knowledge would be unable to read that, and may actually think it's spam. To us, it goes straight to the line that says 'Copyright 2023 Western Digital' and skips all the salient points.
Utterly disgusting behaviour from such a large company about such an important topic.
If you're of a mind to do so, please boost to raise awareness.
This email is seemingly *not* a drill.
@FreakyFwoof Andre, the only thing I have about western digital is https://technology.jaredrimer.net/2023/04/03/two-sources-say-that-wester-digitals-file-sharing-service-is-down/ which talks about a file sharing service being down. https://technology.jaredrimer.net/2021/07/05/western-digital-drives-remotely-wiped-what-experts-say-to-do-now/ talks about drives that got wiped and links to an article. https://technology.jaredrimer.net/2021/07/06/western-digital-is-not-done-more-zero-days-on-the-way/ talks about more zero-days being out in the wild. These are all oder posts, and the fact they communicated to you this way in an accessible way is not called for. Too bad we can't call and wine about that crap. That's stupid.
Two sources say that Wester Digital’s file sharing service is down

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