I came across the post on Reddit about a guy that took this hard drive that he stored his bitcoin to a data recovery specialist to fix it, who told him that his 276 bitcoin has been stolen, wait a minute how, his hard drive was bad and gave it to you to fix it and then you told him it was stolen.
It's a shame how people would still act so unwise with their holdings, I know its not his fault that his hard drive got bad but at least he should have taken some measures to secure his holdings, and now there is no proff that the so called data recovery specialist was the one who stole it or not.
He did bad at start.
Bad by having no back up for his wallets.
At the end, when his hard drive was broken technically, he has no other choices than bringing it to a third-party repairing, data recovery service, to retrieve data exclusively his wallet files.
He had no other choices than that if he can not recover data by himself.
However, another lesson is he should choose a trusted service, not a random, new one without long history of service operation. By the way, whatever service he chooses, he must afford to lose his bitcoin. No guarantee that any service will help him successfully recover data, wallet files or don't steal his bitcoins.
Back up. Back up. Test your back up. You will not fall into such nightmare.