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.

$ 25,000 prize for a lost hard drive images 1 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.