Security News > 2021 > July > SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen from back of a truck, then turned up on YouTube

It sounds like a "Dog ate my homework" excuse for the cloud age, but Euro-cloud Scaleway says one of its solid-state disks was stolen from a truck, turned up in the hands of a YouTuber, and has now made its way back home.

A Saturday post by CEO Yann Lechelle revealed that over a year ago, a disk was stolen while in transit between two Scaleway data centres.

Specifically, a YouTuber called Micode who creates content about the persistence of data even after disks are formatted.

Lechelle said Scaleway worked with the YouTuber to recover the disk.

The French-language video creator has written to Scaleway with assurances they have not copied the information contained on the disk.

If you understand French, you can catch the final part of Micode's video series on the purloined Scaleway SSD here, which was uploaded on July 23, the day before Lechelle emitted his blog post.

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