A resident of the town of Market Harborough in the UK, Ellie Hart, lost access to a USB drive containing information to enter a cryptocurrency wallet with bitcoins worth over $3.8 million. This was reported by the Daily Star.
As Ellie, who previously worked as a teacher, told, she decided to sort through old boxes and accidentally threw away a flash drive, mistaking it for one of the usual work storage devices. Along with the flash drive, old receipts, batteries, and cables were sent to the trash. The woman had no idea that this device contained the data for accessing the cryptocurrency that her partner Tom had purchased back in 2013. After some time, Tom started looking for the device and asked Ellie if she had seen a small black flash drive on which he stored access to the bitcoins. "I froze. At that moment, I understood everything. My heart sank. I said, 'I think I threw it away.' Panic washed over me," Hart shared. The couple tried to regain the lost device, even checking the discarded garbage bags, but their efforts were unsuccessful. Later, Ellie admitted that she considers what happened the biggest mistake of her life.
