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?
there are ways
Back in the 90’s when I was in the military the NSA made up a bunch of rules for half a dozen slow complete formats or physically destroy the HD platters with a wire brush.
Yes, because someone with the skills and (physical) tools can still access data on a drive after a slow format. As I also mentioned. But your 08/15 recovery software wont be able to do anything with a slow formatted drive.