What can people who steal an iMac with an Admin PW do with it?

I've had my iMac stolen in my home ( as well as a MacBook, but Apple wants be to talk by product, not by problem type, ie, theft in this case)
I did not have the serial number jotted down and it was on an older OS so no icloud, so I have no easy way to track it.
Just curious as to what thieves can do with an iMAC with an Admin password on it? Can they hack that? Can they acces the files on the drive with some external disk or software?
Just wondering what precautionary measures I should be taking now that 2 of my Macs are in the wrong hands.

Unless your home folder or the disk was Filevaulted
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10578then if the HD is removed, all data on it can be read.
and unless you did this : Setting up firmware password protection in Mac OS X
then it's easy for anyone to access the data without having to remove the drive.

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