So my girlfriend was at the "college art association conference" in LA, and her book bag was stolen. She intended to apply for a new social security card later in the day, so unfortunately just about every legal document she owned was there (green card, old ss card, check books, driver's license, etc.) as well as the usual wallet items like credit cards, parking validation ticket w/ car keys. Also lost was her 'fancy artist camera', Macbook Pro with Adobe everything (artists...), multiple terrabytes of external hdds (some with legal contracts for work), and obviously her browser caches passwords and her local mail client is thousands of emails deep with plenty of e-statements. 

Obviously pleas of "hey reddit, be on the lookout for someone with a black bookbag in LA" would be foolish on my part. What I want to know is what steps do we need to take to make sure that our loss here is limited to the financial value of the items in the bag (already more than two grad students can afford...), and not our credit scores and identities further down the line? And how do we best alert friends and family that anything they have ever sent us is no longer private so protect your accounts as well?

So far a police report has been filed, the parking security guard has been told to look out for anyone accessing the car, and all of our cards have been cancelled. What else?

Helpful advice could be:
-list of sites with passwords we should consider changing, so that we don't accidentally omit anything
-steps to ensure identity isn't stolen (ours and friends/family)
-any way to trace the items? laptop is Macbook pro, Magellan gps
-any thing else you could think of

I am not Liam Neeson, and I lack his particular set of skills. But I am a student on the other side of the country and I want to help her however I can.
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Jorge Bergoglio lost his
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So my girlfriend was at the "college art association conference" in LA, and her book bag was stolen. She intended to apply for a new social security card later in the day, so unfortunately just about every legal document she owned was there (green card, old ss card, check books, driver's license, etc.) as well as the usual wallet items like credit cards, parking validation ticket w/ car keys. Also lost was her 'fancy artist camera', Macbook Pro with Adobe everything (artists...), multiple terrabytes of external hdds (some with legal contracts for work), and obviously her browser caches passwords and her local mail client is thousands of emails deep with plenty of e-statements. 

Obviously pleas of "hey reddit, be on the lookout for someone with a black bookbag in LA" would be foolish on my part. What I want to know is what steps do we need to take to make sure that our loss here is limited to the financial value of the items in the bag (already more than two grad students can afford...), and not our credit scores and identities further down the line? And how do we best alert friends and family that anything they have ever sent us is no longer private so protect your accounts as well?

So far a police report has been filed, the parking security guard has been told to look out for anyone accessing the car, and all of our cards have been cancelled. What else?

Helpful advice could be:
-list of sites with passwords we should consider changing, so that we don't accidentally omit anything
-steps to ensure identity isn't stolen (ours and friends/family)
-any way to trace the items? laptop is Macbook pro, Magellan gps
-any thing else you could think of

I am not Liam Neeson, and I lack his particular set of skills. But I am a student on the other side of the country and I want to help her however I can.
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bunch of important stuff
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