Hard disk drives

US imposes $300 mln penalty on Seagate over Huawei shipments

U.S. authorities on April 19 imposed a $300 million penalty on Seagate Technology, to resolve alleged violations of export controls related to selling hard disk drives to Huawei Technologies, the Commerce Department said.

The manufacturer was involved in the shipment of hard disk drives valued over $1.1 billion to Huawei entities despite U.S. controls.

Foreign Ministry data lost due to failed hard drive

A major chunk of the Greek Foreign Ministry's email correspondence records is no longer available due to hard drive failure, Skai reported late Tuesday.

According to Skai, the failed hard drive contained data, including confidential electronic documents, dating 2005 onwards. The ministry has kept no backup copies of the data, the report said.