I got my laptop stolen! What should I do.

The 1st thing you should be worrying about, if you use your debit card for purchases like I and a million others do, is that info saved and gonna show up. You should call the number on your card immediately and put a hold on your account.

If you used Internet Explorer then your usernames and passwords may not be such a problem as it never stores anything, for me anyway, you would actually have to type in the 1st letter of your username. Now Chrome or Chromium, that`s a different story.

I know my card info is stored on newegg and tigerdirect even if I use Ccleaner or Disk Cleanup. But I think you have to always enter the exp date and the 3 digit security code to make a purchase.

next laptop you get install prey.

Open source anti-theft solution for laptops, phones & tablets – Prey

tommyg562000 said:

Make sure to use truecrypt to encrypt your new laptop so you don't have to worry about these things if it ever happens again. +1 for using last pass :)

Thank you. How do you do that?

boohbah said:

next laptop you get install prey.

Open source anti-theft solution for laptops, phones & tablets – Prey

Thank you so much for this.

FaberTech said:

Every time something got stolen from me that was worth anything, i called all the pawn shops within 25 miles. always got my stuff back.

Good advice along with all the other good advice here.

+1 for Prey. Almost got a colleague arrested when a guy brought to him a stolen smartphone for a "repair", but was fun neverthless.