The Taipei Times reports that a batch of Maxtor branded Seagate hard drives have been tainted with a virus that uploads data stored on the devices to Chinese websites. It is not yet known how this has happened, but the Chinese government has been known to run aggressive spying programs involving information technology and the internet. Several users of the devices reported finding the trojan on brand new hard drives and alerted the investigation bureau. So far, the only devices confirmed as tainted with this virus are the Maxtor Basics 500 GB drives. Everyone should check to make sure that they do not have these disks. If so, they should be returned to the location where they were purchased. Initial reports state that 1800 units were shipped to stores. Of those 1500 have been pulled off shelves, with the remaining 300 having been sold to consumers already.
Read the full article at: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/11/11/2003387202
Seagate Maxtor Hard Drives Tainted with Virus that reports to Chinese websites
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