This is the real-life story of James Howells, a man from Newport, Wales, who accidentally tossed out a hard drive containing access to a massive fortune. For over a decade, he fought to recover it, ...

Imagine throwing away a hard drive, only to later discover it held the key to millions—no, billions—of dollars. That’s exactly what James Howells, an IT worker from Newport, Wales, faced in 2013. What ...

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James Howells is finally done. After over a decade, Howells finally gave up his search for the hard drive he accidentally threw away in 2013, which held 8,000 Bitcoins. Howells accidentally tossed ...

Your hard drive may not always perform well, and sudden disk errors or accidental deletion can cause you to lose data. But there’s no need to feel frustrated after losing essential data on a hard ...

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Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines.