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Seagate 'Spins Up' a Raid on a Counterfeit Hard Drive Workshop
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Seagate succeeds in a major blow to hard drive operators. Together with Behrden, the manufacturer is raising a car repair shop in Malaysia, which has also manipulated HDDs from Western Digital and Toshiba. Almost 700 hard drives have been confiscated. (Continue reading)
Seagate Raid Seizes 700 Counterfeit Hard Drives in Malaysia
In a dramatic escalation of efforts to combat intellectual property theft in the storage industry, Seagate Technology recently orchestrated a high-stakes raid on a counterfeit hard drive operation in Malaysia. The operation, detailed in a report from Tom’s Hardware, involved security teams from Seagate’s Singapore and Malaysian offices collaborating with local authorities to dismantle a warehouse outside Kuala Lumpur. This May raid uncovered nea…
Seagate worked with Malaysian police to dismantle a counterfeit hard drive operation. The criminal gang was resetting the data on mining disks, repackaging them, and selling them as brand new hard drives. Starting in February 2025, Seagate hard drives sold on some legitimate e-commerce websites were found to be counterfeit. An investigation by the Malaysian team discovered 700 counterfeit hard drives in a warehouse and seized hard drives of mult…
Seagate, KPDN Take Down Counterfeiting Hard Drive Workshop Outside Kuala Lumpur
If you’ve been shopping online for a new hard drive over the past couple of years, you would have undoubtedly stumbled upon a number of listings on popular e-commerce sites like Shopee and Lazada offering high capacity drivers for a fraction of it’s retail price. Most of these listings also claim the drives to be brand new and original devices. However there is always a catch when something seems to good to be true. The listing below (which was …
Seagate 'Spins Up' a Raid on a Counterfeit Hard Drive Workshop
An anonymous reader shared this report from Tom's Hardware: According to German news outlet Heise, notable progress has been made regarding the counterfeit Seagate hard drive case. Just like something out of an action movie, security teams from Seagate's Singapore and Malaysian offices, in conjunc...
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