I had an employee provide a resignation before I was on site. The employee then unplugged a desktop computer and left the premises with it. The computer contained pricing data, customer data, email communications, login credentials to several important websites, login info to vendor websites.
I filed a police report and the police were able to recover the computer, however the data on the machine was wiped or the drive was replaced.
What should I do?
Contact a local lawyer. Let them know that you don’t know if the drive was replaced or not, you might not be able to say exactly what was on it at the time, and you don’t know if the information on the computer has been used to do anything.
Whether they can still do anything at that point, I don’t know. Depends on your local legal system. Did the police arrest the employee for theft of the desktop?