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User has been Auto deleted - all data lost
Netgear RN10400 , fw: 6.6.0, 2 x 1TB, RAID 1. User has been Auto deleted - all data lost. Can not acces local user home dir?!? Can someone check this? Or tell me, in which log can I check th...
Please if you haven't already. Have a read of Having ReadyCLOUD problems since 3/30/17?
This announcement has been updated over time.
I'm going to mark this as the solution to make sure those visiting this thread see this post.
This incident is a very serious event and for NetGear to have the ability to remove my access to my own data and also delete data is of serious concern. I would like to understand how this happened. Was it the result of a security breach? Has this event exposed my data to another party? Why has NetGear been so slow to respond on this issue.
I now have to question the viability of the whole ReadyCloud solution. It is simply too high risk for me to trust NetGear to hold administrative access to my hardware and data. This is not the first problem I have had with this solution and support response is inadequate. People need to have access to their data. They rely on it.
mutley1971 wrote:
I now have to question the viability of the whole ReadyCloud solution. It is simply too high risk for me to trust NetGear to hold administrative access to my hardware and data. This is not the first problem I have had with this solution and support response is inadequate. People need to have access to their data. They rely on it.
You do have other choices. I use OpenVPN (built into my router) myself. There is also OwnCloud and ZeroTier.
Cloud Sync or Resilio/Plex Sync might cover some use cases, but you need to be careful about two-way sync, since issues in one repository can propagate to the other.
We went with Negear, or I did because it was one stop shopping. If I wanted the other cloud accounts and sources, I could have built my own and ran a cloud on rasberry pi. I find suggestions like this when events of this nature take place, a smokescreen and to put the blame back on the user. Also i would not have recommended Netgear as a reliable source for their data either. I'm still waiting for that mysterious answer as to how Negear had the ability to turn off cloud access in my device when I have to log in as an admin and the password I setup. SMH
It was the result of an outage different in nature to what we'd had before. We've implemented patches to our server software to address the root cause. There wasn't any security breach.
We had immediately reached out to those registered users who appeared to have been affected by the outage. To err on the side of caution, NETGEAR then subsequently expanded our outreach to the larger community to ensure that no one who may have been exposed by the incident had been overlooked.
We've been attempting to recover data for those customers who need an attempt made. There's an email address if you need this (mentioned several times in this thread, I marked a post as the solution that links to important information on this issue). It's important to get the volume mounted read-only ASAP after files are deleted to maximise the chances of successful data recovery.
Some users recognised the importance of backing up their data (you shouldn't store data on just the one device) and were simply able to restore from backup.
Many ReadyCLOUD users don't store data in the home folders.
Hi mdgm,
You have mentioned several times on this thread the importance of having several copies of our files. I honestly believe this is not the place to discuss this. You're talking about a preventive measure; what good does that do now?
Netgear sold me and others a drive that wiped itself clean of all the data that was in it, you don't see the problem here?
If a bank sells you a safe deposit box that ruined all the documents that were in it, does it have the right to tell you you should've had another box with another bank and had copies there?
You're also trying to tell us that the reaction from netgear was exemplary and that you 'reached out to your customers'; This issue is one month old now, I have been battling with your customer support team just to be put in contact with someone from your legal team or anyone from your management team that understands how serious this is, you're treating it like another bug that you fix with a support ticket and some work from your engineering team; Your product caused people to lose priceless data, your management team should be very concerned about this and make a statement about how they intend to compensate for this loss their product caused. Of course if you can recover the data your product made us lose I don't think someone would go forward with the complaints, but your engineers are saying stuff like "anything we can recover is good" and not being able to recover more than 10% of the data;
And my case should be the easiest, I store everything on my drive so not to much deletions of files previous to march 30, and have put the drive in tech support right after the incident without even using the drive let alone write something to it. If my case is that hard to solve, how are you going to recover the data of people who wrote to their drives or frequently added and removed files to their drives prior to the incident.
We've implemented patches to our server software to address the root cause.
NETGEAR implement Software auf einem Server, auf dem Kundendaten gespeichert sind und auf die Gefahr hin, das Kunden nicht mehr Zugriff auf ihre Daten haben oder verloren gegangen sind? Wird dies nicht auf einem anderen Server vorher getestet?
There wasn't any security breach.
Was immer noch nicht bewiesen ist.
We had immediately reached out to those registered users who appeared to have been affected by the outage.
Es sind zu viele User NICHT benachrichtigt worden.
To err on the side of caution, NETGEAR then subsequently expanded our outreach to the larger community to ensure that no one who may have been exposed by the incident had been overlooked.
Öffentlicher Hinweis sieht anders aus. Wo standen sie denn? Warum kam der Hinweis nicht direkt nach dem einloggen?
Some users recognised the importance of backing up their data (you shouldn't store data on just the one device) and were simply able to restore from backup.
NETGEAR kann von keinem Kunden verlangen, hunderte von Posts oder Treads durchzulesen, um nach einer E-Mail-Adresse zu suchen von der er zuvor nicht gewußt, hatte, dass eine Lösung über diese E-Mail-Adresse gibt.
It's important to get the volume mounted read-only ASAP after files are deleted to maximise the chances of successful data recovery.
Also doch: Die Daten sind bei NETGEAR nicht sicher!!!
Many ReadyCLOUD users don't store data in the home folders.
Warum sollte im Home-Ordner gespeichert werden? Wo steht geschrieben, das man das nicht soll?
Hi DiddiTalk
I won't comment on ReadyCloud, since that is up to Netgear.
It would be helpful if you can make it more clear when you are quoting a previous post. You can use the "quote" button for that (and edit it to focus on the section you are commenting on).
Also, the language in the main forum is English. When you post in German, please use Google Translate to help all of us understand your post.
Ich werde nicht auf ReadyCloud kommentieren, da ist das bis Netgear.
Es wäre hilfreich, wenn Sie es klarer machen können, wenn Sie einen vorherigen Beitrag zitieren. Sie können die Schaltfläche "Anführungszeichen" dafür verwenden (und bearbeiten Sie sie, um sich auf den Abschnitt zu konzentrieren, den Sie kommentieren).
Auch die Sprache im Hauptforum ist Englisch. Wenn du in deutscher Sprache brauchst, benutze bitte Google Translate, um allen zu helfen, deinen Beitrag zu verstehen.
Hi mdgm,
I didn't get an answer to my post -- the drive Netgear sold me deleted all the data that was on it, and it did so because of something that happened at Netgear. How is Netgear going to compensate for the data lost?
sassinemichel wrote:Hi mdgm,
I didn't get an answer to my post -- the drive Netgear sold me deleted all the data that was on it, and it did so because of something that happened at Netgear. How is Netgear going to compensate for the data lost?
:smileyfrustrated: Essentially by telling you it is your own fault. Netgear has opted not to take responsibility for their actions, and instead lays the blame on the users for being foolish enough to trust your data to their products and services.
Definitely some of the worst public relations handling I've seen in the tech industry.
But I'm sure they'll reply, at some point with something unimaginably arrogant.
It may be too simple of a question.
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