National Archives offering reward for lost Clinton-era hard drive
Thursday, May 21, 2009
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) said it will begin notifying former White House employees from the Clinton administration that their personal information was contained on a hard drive that went missing sometime between October 2008 and February of this year.
NARA said yesterday it is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the hard drive - a two terabyte Western Digital MY BOOK external hard drive - which was discovered missing on March 24. A criminal investigation is also underway, NARA said.
On April 2, NARA officials informed senior officials that the drive was missing, as well as the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team of the Department of Homeland Security, the White House Counsel's Office, staff House and Senate committees, and a representative of former President Clinton.
Officials are currently reviewing the data on a copy of the missing hard drive to compile a list of people who may have had their personal information compromised.
"Because of the extremely large volume of data on the drive, we do not know yet the number of individuals whose privacy has been affected," the agency said on its website. "As individuals are identified, they will be notified."
NARA said it is not known whether the drive was stolen or merely lost.
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