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>“Western Digital is currently experiencing a service outage impacting the following products: My Cloud, My Cloud Home, My Cloud Home Duo, My Cloud OS5, SanDisk ibi, SanDisk Ixpand Wireless Charger"

In what world does a wireless charger need a cloud?

“Ixpand” is the clue: it comes bundled with a photo backup service. Presumably the charger itself is working just fine.

Perhaps it does something like the iPhone's "Clean Energy Charging" feature? This requires some sort of internet connection to know when to charge.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213323

Presumably the phone knows the time and the charger does not need to connect to the internet.

Was gonna say that my defualt mindset is now "If something is down for longer than a day, they have been breached!".

I worked at WD for about 2 years (via acquisition). I never really used their cloud services for any personal reason - because I either couldn’t get them to work or didn’t trust them.

I wouldn’t use their MyCloud NAS devices as a reliable place to store any important data.

Their cloud services routinely go down like this. And they just don’t communicate with their users.