$ 25,000 prize for a lost hard drive

The Alabama Veterans' Medical Management Center (AVAMC), USA, said it had relied on the FBI's help to search for a lost hard drive a few years ago, and gave out 25,000 prizes Find this hard drive.

According to the FBI, the lost external Iomega hard drive contains personal information of at least half a million US veterans. The hard drive was stolen from an AVAMC employee's home when he backed up medical data.

Although authorities have not found cases of abuse of personal information lost, a series of recent identity theft has forced the FBI into action. The FBI is also investigating a series of similar incidents, which are "evaporation" of laptops or hard drives containing a large amount of important personal information.

It is known that the US Senate recently issued a new law that regulates the responsibilities for IT managers if the loss of personal data occurs.