My EHD has been taken - will the person who has it see my stuff?

I had an EHD and it would back up my iMac. Now it is in the possession of someone else. I will try to get it back but, will they be able to connect it to a pc and see everything that was backed up? My iMac is password protected - does that matter? The person who has the EHD does not have an iMac, or any Apple product. Does that make a difference? And if they can see data on it, how much can they see? Can they see my @mac.com email? Can they get a list of all of my Safari bookmarks? Can they see webpages I was on? All my contacts in my address book and all of my iPhotos, my resume, my saved pictures to my desktop? I'm a little freaked out at how vulnerable I am right now. Any insight?

You should assume that all the contents of the drive that were not encrypted are compromised. Typically, that would mean everything except your keychains, which contain, among other things, website passwords. The keychain is protected by your login password. If you chose a strong password, which many people don't, then it would be reasonable to assume that it's safe in the short term, as long as the information isn't duplicated elsewhere on the drive. You should still plan on changing any sensitive passwords that were in the backup.
If you were using FileVault, and you weren't using automatic login, and the backup was created by Time Machine, then the contents of your home folder are as secure as your login password, which again may not be very secure if you chose a weak password.

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