Just had my MacBook Pro stolen and both back up drives!!!

Question

Today the worse thing that could ever happen to a photographer did. My camera bag which had my 15" MacBook Pro, 2 back up drives (my only ones with all my work/photographs) passwords, etc was stolen out of my car. If anyone has experienced such a loss I could use some guidelines as to remedy this situation. I have over 50 password to various sites that gratefully I printed out.
What are the chances that these passwords could be recovered. When the computer shut down I hadn't logged out so there is access to all my files on the
laptop.
I no longer have 90% of images. This is a serious loss as anyone can imagine. I have my iPhone and wondering if I can salvage some images I had in my pictures folder that I transferred over to the iPhone as well as my iTunes.
much appreciate any leads..  ~A~

Answer 1

Sorry to hear about the situacion.
Certainly report the theft to the local authorities.
As far as the passwords, anyone who has physical access to your computer has access to your data (obviously).  This includes passwords stored on the computer (although these are relatively hard to access unless you know what you are doing).
As you know the passwords to the various sites, better safe than even more sorry, go change all your passwords ASAP.  If you keep credit card information on your computer, notify your bank / credit card company about the situacion.
Images that are stored in your camera roll can be imported back to any Mac or Windows system just by plugging in the phone and launching an image capture application (iPhoto or Aperture).  Images that were synced from the computer to the phone will need to be extracted using a program like this: http://mobilesyncbrowser.com/
For the future, consider not keeping all your backups in one place, using a remote backup solution as well as local backups (http://www.qdea.com, http://www.idrive.com, http://www.carbonite.com), and if you are always doing photo shoots in public places with your computer present, perhaps install some tracking software (http://store.lojackforlaptops.com).
Best of luck to you.