CF Card formatted itself?

I upgraded to Mavericks the other day, and today when I plugged in my memory card (CF card with raw files from a Nikon D800) and opened Aperture, all of a sudden the memory card was named "My Book" (coincidentally this is the name of my external HDD I use for Time Machine) and was formatted in Mac OS X Journaled format, and was now blank. Right before plugging the card into the reader I reviewed several of the images in camera and they were fine. I've NEVER lost data before, and I'm quite sure there's no way I accidentally formatted it.
Has anyone else experienced problems like this? I'm a little blown away that my memory card's format just *magically* changed to OS X Extended...

I've had this happen twice, once with a CF and once with an SD. The first time was with a Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, and the other was with a Canon EOS 70D.
I DO use a WD external hard drive, but I don't think I ever installed the included software on my computer (I could be wrong, but it's certainly not there now). And in both cases, the drive was not connected to the computer at the time of the 'My Book' formatting and hadn't been for several days.
The only anomaly I can think of that might have something to do with a trigger is that (in the second case at least... I don't remember if this was the case the first time) the 'My Book' formatting happened the first time I put a card into the computer after the computer had been shut down for a few days.
FWIW, the first time it happened when the card was in an external card reader, and the second time it happened when a card was put into the computer's built-in SD slot.
My details:
MacBook Pro on OS X 10.9.3
Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB

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