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I had backblaze on a laptop that was stolen. The thief uploaded all of their criminal activities to my backblaze account. I was able to inform five federal agencies on their wrongdoings as a result.

Thanks Backblaze for adding the forever hold feature! You helped prevent more victims of a very bad human.

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How was the thief even able to login to your laptop?

It was a spare on a shelf at my office in a co working space. Password was not set up so a low level worker could use it if I needed them to grab it. Worked out well as the thief used it and thought nothing of securing it.

It was a cheap wintel computer that could have had the os reinstalled if the operating system had been locked.

The thief had opportunity and access to the coworking space.

Thankfully they didn’t realize backblaze was on it.

Probably just extracted the credentials from an unencrypted drive.

Seems a bit more savvy than I'd expect a typical laptop-snatcher would be, but with the possibility of finding a cryptocurrency wallet these days, maybe more thieves go to the trouble (or sell them to people who would).

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