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Attorney Fraud?

By Jerry

My employer provides me with a computer for my home to work one of my 5 work days from my home. I also use the computer for personal use. Here is my problem. My husband and I are in a nasty divorce, with my husband still living in the same household. My husband's attorney had him to remove (steal) the hard drive from the household computer that is owned and property of my employer and took the hard drive to his attorney to have a computer tech gain access to any personal information about me to gain an edge in our divorce proceedings. My husband's attorney was not told initially by my husband that the computer was property of my employer and it did not belong to me, but was informed prior to the tech accessing the information and copying/downloading etc. the information stored within the hard drive. The hard drive had over 1700 internet web site orders placed by customers (from all over the United States) to the business, with their names, addresses, personal credit card information and email accounts and passwords. In addition business and my personal credit card information was stored on that computer with account numbers and passwords to access credit card accounts and bank account information. Is this computer fraud or unethical on an attorneys part? Do I or any of the 1700 customers have a legal issue, civil or criminal with personal information being accessed?
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First Name: Kim
Last Name: Douglas
Phone:
Email: info@bear-heaven.com
Phone: 304-765-7993
Address: Sutton
City: West Virginia
Country: United States
I understand that my question may be posted to the IBLS

Full post as published by IBLS Internet Law Blog on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).