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?
Press charges, get a lawyer, get your insurance involved. You also might have to inform customers and vendors of a data breach if any sensitive information was there.
You have acase against them. Whether they have the money to pay damages that is a different question.
But don’t let them get away with it.