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Published: January 11, 2021 4:50 PM EST
Updated: January 16, 2021 8:18 AM EST
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A malware attack we are learning about could harm your personal files. People are buying external hard drives online, plugging them into personal computers and losing precious photos and data. This is being seen in the U.S. retail market.
CPR Tools, a Fort Myers cybersecurity company, buys a lot of hard drives, but this the first time one of its experts has seen a cyberattack like this in the marketplace.
“We bought a bunch of these,” said Ray Leventhal, a technical writer for CPR Tools. “Kind of surprised what we found when we plugged them in … Out of the box it contained some malware.”