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I found that with the police, particularly in these strapped times (at least, in my jurisdiction), it's a matter of prioritization. If yours was a relatively low value property crime, with no injuries, you may just be too low on the list to get significant resources. The less resources your case demands, the more likely it may be to get action. For example, I'm not recommending confronting them yourself, but if you had credible documentation that turned that IP address into a street address, with a demonstrated continued presence of the stolen property, this might get acted on if the detective thought a judge would readily generate a warrant, and/or the suspect might be a source of other/continued criminal activity, and/or whatever else. I don't know whether this has any merit, but if you're on good terms with your insurance company, you might mention the situation. Although, again, for a low value crime (from their perspective), it may be more cost effective to simply pay what the policy says is your due, rather than to "solve" the crime. Part of the problem for you and other people in this situation: Unless you have an insurance policy far different from the typical homeowner's policy, there is no coverage of the value of your data and so no financial incentive to foster its recovery. (Even from an identity theft perspective, it's cheaper to sign you up for monitoring than to recover the stolen data.) This all is just my interpretation of such situations, for whatever value it has. I may be wrong, but this is how I see it, in general. |