National Archives Offers Reward for Missing Hard Drive

The National Archives offered a $50,000 reward today for information leading to the recovery of a missing computer hard drive containing a large store of sensitive personnel data from the Clinton administration, including the Social Security numbers and other private information of White House employees in the 1990s.

Described by the archives as "a Western Digital My Book external hard drive," it also contains political records, logs of social events and other gatherings, information about Secret Service and White House operating procedures and other data, the Associated Press reported last week, quoting congressional officials.

The archives said today that it has known since March 24 that the drive was missing from a processing room in College Park. The Secret Service is investigating, and it remains unclear whether the drive was lost or stolen, the archives said.