This is why I don't save passwords ANYWHERE electronically. I hand-write them in a notebook, and that book stays at home hidden in my room. I have, what now seems in hindsight, a healthy fear of this sort of thing happening... oddly enough, it started for me when I bought a used Xbox and the XBL account was all still there along with game saves, etc. It was a window into someone else's life, all there for me to see and use, if I felt like it (which i never actually did - I have a moral compass and it still points North).
Honestly, what I would have done in the case of a YLOD, would be to change every aspect of the account I could so that the info on the bricked drive wasn't current. The techs who saw that HDD were probably instrumental in the heist, or at the very least, indirectly responsible... but I really sort of side with the post which said you are responsible for the final line. If you knew there was stuff on the drive, you could have taken steps.
People are scum. Including me. I'm no saint. I just don't include stealing in my lexicon of human frailties.
I'm really, REALLY sorry that this "lesson" had to go down as it did, I'm positive you didn't deserve any of it. I wish there was some way for us to help you out.
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