Folder suddenly full of garbage data--malware or could it be file corruption?

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I opened a folder on my thumb drive to find all the files gone and replaced with garbage like the photo below (the folders will not open). Malwarebytes is scanning it now, but hasn't found anything yet. Could something like this be caused by corrupted data (removing the thumb drive while it was writing a file or something) or by a virus?


EDIT: Not sure if it matters, but there weren't nearly that many subfolders in this folder before--only 2 or 3.




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