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?
Lawyer up immediately!!
Your former employee didn’t steal a co puter, this is a serious data breach and needs to be reported. Get in touch with the FTC and any state agencies that handle that sort of thing.
Seriously, if there was any personal identifiable information you could have legal exposure if you don’t cover your ass.