Contact book erase by error with ICloud

Hi,
my young son received his macbook pro 10.8.2 yesterday. He used his mother apple id for ICloud and he erases in Contact bok all his mother's contacts. The next morning his mother's Iphone run out of contacts. Can I do now ? The computer links to iphone was not set for backup. I called Apple the tech, he told me than there is no copy of contacts on hard drive's MacBook. But if I turn off the Wifi, I can read my son's new contact book. I want to know if there was a full copy of original contac book on hard drive's Mac Book ? In this case, i could use a recovery data software.
regards,
Jean

If your contacts were synced to your Mac, then yes they will have been written to it's hard drive at some point. Whether data recovery software can recover your contacts or not is another question and one that can't be answered because there is no guarantees with data recovery as to what can be recovered.

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