This particular article indicates that KDE, a distribution platform that can change desktop themes and other things on the PC can in fact wipe data, as told within the article.
While I have no knowledge of the company, they appear to be a small company with not enough resources to vet the plugins and other things on their site and store for malicious activity.
<img src=”https://www.bleepstatic.com/content/hl-images/2024/03/21/KDE.jpg” KDE image”/>
I do give them credit though, they will now be trying the best they can to both give warnings from the plug in or web site when adding things, but I wonder if it is too late for this cycle?
KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user’s files is the article if this affects you.