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Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill
(www.techspot.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Data recovery specialists exist, and nobody would pay for them if the data they were recovering wasn't, you know, valuable enough to pay a specialist to maybe retrieve it. They probably deal with multimillion dollar industrial/financial/business secrets all the time, and do it discreetly, or else their business wouldn't even exist.