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einstein9
 Post subject: WD MCU - No more...
PostPosted: September 11th, 2025, 9:06 
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It's been sometime since i posted something new here.. Anyway...

Group of Researchers (proud to be part of it) found a way to extract the unique key from those WD MCU PCBs (charger, SpyGlass ...etc)

This means you don`t need to move/solder MCU from pcb to another.
Instead you can READ the key from the original PCB (even when its DEAD :wink: ) and write it back to DONOR PCB which is really Amazing..

I would like to Thank Mr. Leo Again for being part of this... In 2026 will released.

For now, the plan is the Commercial ver. of the Solution which i think MRT will lead...

:idea:

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PostPosted: September 11th, 2025, 9:24 
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Excellent work -well done.

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PostPosted: September 11th, 2025, 10:16 
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Congrats!!!

I have one WD i need get one file, but all companies said me is unrecovery, let's hope some day can get it.
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michael chiklis
 Post subject: Re: WD MCU - No more...
PostPosted: September 11th, 2025, 10:49 
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Very good news. :cool:
I just got a Charger WD drive that has bad patient pcb, with sata donor i was able to access to SA but user area resulted encrypted.
But fortunately this time i was able to repair patient usb pcb, so all data was recovered. :D
Is good to know that now there is someone here that is able to extract the key from MCU from this encrypted pcb, may be useful in future.

What can you say about cases where the MCU is damaged/lost?
It will be possible to hack encryption algorithm to generate the decryption key for each case if mcu is lost??

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MindMergepk
 Post subject: Re: WD MCU - No more...
PostPosted: September 12th, 2025, 5:25 
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einstein9 wrote:
It's been sometime since i posted something new here.. Anyway...

Group of Researchers (proud to be part of it) found a way to extract the unique key from those WD MCU PCBs (charger, SpyGlass ...etc)

This means you don`t need to move/solder MCU from pcb to another.
Instead you can READ the key from the original PCB (even when its DEAD :wink: ) and write it back to DONOR PCB which is really Amazing..

I would like to Thank Mr. Leo Again for being part of this... In 2026 will released.

For now, the plan is the Commercial ver. of the Solution which i think MRT will lead...

:idea:


well done,
Charger drives had no solution when it comes to encryption
for Spyglass i think encryption key can be extracted from SA as well.

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einstein9
 Post subject: Re: WD MCU - No more...
PostPosted: September 13th, 2025, 2:07 
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Thank you guys... :wink:

wish you all the best

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samstown
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PostPosted: April 1st, 2026, 3:23 
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Is there any update ?
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einstein9
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PostPosted: April 1st, 2026, 4:06 
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samstown wrote:
Is there any update ?


Of course there is..

here is how the MCU unique code looks like..
close to figure out the equation with a shortcut to bypass :idea:


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