Can magnets actually damage hard drives?

People have warned for years that magnets can wipe out hard drives, but the real answer is a lot less dramatic than that old tech myth suggests.
The Florida Times-Union

Hypromag Achieves Further Technical Milestones as Piloting Ramps Up in Advance of Commercial Rare Earth Magnet Production in The Uk, Germany and USA

The first production-ready HDD magnet separation system has been built by INSERMA ANOIA SL (“Inserma”) [i] and is expected to be delivered to the UK in Q3. The system has been shown to more accurately ...