Seagate Technology — 9 prefixes (MA-L)

Seagate Technology is one of the two largest hard-disk-drive manufacturers in the world (alongside Western Digital), and IEEE's MA-L registry shows nine separate OUI blocks assigned to the exact organization string "Seagate Technology," spread across three distinct site addresses: Shakopee, MN; Longmont, CO; and Bloomington, MN. That spread of prefixes and locations reflects decades of hardware production rather than a single shell registration. Seagate's product line spans HDDs and SSDs embedded in servers, desktops, laptops, DVRs, and game consoles, plus its own Ethernet-facing consumer/prosumer NAS appliances (Business Storage NAS, BlackArmor NAS, Seagate Central) — the device class most likely to actually present one of these MACs on a LAN. Those NAS lines carry a documented, dated CVE history, including a 2015 pre-authentication remote-root firmware bug and later XSS/command-injection findings, giving this vendor real device and security corroboration beyond the bare registry entry. A related but separately-registered org, "Seagate Cloud Systems Inc" (4 MA-L prefixes, the Dot Hill/Xyratex enterprise-storage lineage), already has its own DONE entry in this pipeline and must not be merged into this one.

IEEE assignment

9 prefixes → "Seagate Technology" (MA-L) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (lines 10111-10112, 17981-17983, 24513, 33852-33854)

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI), 9 blocks on file for this exact org string [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry; the Wireshark manufacturer database short name "SeagateTechn" for all 9 [Confirmed] — the Wireshark manufacturer database

Registered addresses

1280 Disc Drive, Shakopee, MN 55379 (00:18:62, 00:24:B6, B4:52:53); M/S NW1F01, Longmont, CO 80503 (00:0C:50, 00:14:C3, 00:04:CF, 00:11:C6, 00:1D:38); 8001 E. Bloomington Fwy, Bloomington, MN 55420 (00:20:37) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Verified prefixes

00:04:CF, 00:0C:50, 00:11:C6, 00:14:C3, 00:18:62, 00:1D:38, 00:20:37, 00:24:B6, B4:52:53 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

MA-M / MA-S registrations

no matching row for "Seagate" in the IEEE MA-M registry or the IEEE MA-S registry — this vendor holds MA-L only [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

Company status

active, publicly traded HDD/SSD manufacturer, founded 1979 [Confirmed] — https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0276789D:US, https://www.company-histories.com/Seagate-Technology-Inc-Company-History.html

Device types

hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and Seagate-branded consumer/prosumer NAS appliances (Business Storage NAS, BlackArmor NAS, Seagate Central) [Likely] — https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/business-storage-nas-increasing-security-006133en/

Security context

documented CVE history on the NAS/NAS-OS product lines — 2015 pre-auth remote-root firmware bug (static key forging session tokens, fixed in 2015.00322), XSS in Application Manager metadata fields, missing HttpOnly session cookie flag (NAS OS 4.3.15.1), OS command injection via Seagate Central's mv_backend_launch. No CVE indexes by exact OUI prefix, so the link is by product family, not by MAC block. [Likely] — https://thehackernews.com/2015/03/seagate-nas-device-vulnerability.html, https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-11967/Seagate.html

Distinct sibling entry

"Seagate Cloud Systems Inc" is a separate exact org string with its own 4 MA-L prefixes (00:50:13, 00:50:CC, 00:90:F1, 00:C0:FF) and its own DONE master row — not part of this entry's prefix set [Confirmed] — /mac/vendor/seagate-cloud-systems/, this site's own enrichment records (lines 2202-2206)

Allocated date

Unknown — IEEE's the IEEE MA-L registry publishes no assignment/registration date field (only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address); any third-party "date registered" is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact, and is not recorded here [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

IANA reference

N/A (left blank) — not applicable to an IEEE MAC-address registry assignment

Related vendors

Seagate Cloud Systems Inc (sibling entry, DONE, separate OUI registrations)

Analyst note

nine MA-L prefixes across three site addresses plus a real, dated NAS security-advisory trail mean this entry clears the substance bar for a standalone vendor page — it is not a bare single-OUI shell registration.