Originally posted here by gore
There is a chance he's right. When you log into hotmail it puts a cookie on your computer. I have apps here that allow me to find images I've viewed online months ago and if he has data recovery tools, he'd be able to find them long after they have been deleted.

This is how Hackers sometimes get caught.They delete the files they took, but unless you overwrite that part of your HD like 50 times, someone can still dig it up long after it's been deleted.
However, if the attacker gets into a descent server, it should have raid hard drives and backup images............right? *trying to think logically*