Archive: Authenticate/Find incriminating Instant Messages from LYNC/Skype for Business 2015
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- Authenticating Instant Messages
I am looking for a MS Office 365 expert that would be willing to go into my office 365 and spend time looking for lost data. Specifically Instant Messages.
I have subpoenad Microsoft, and they did come up with some emails from the defendants but nothing useful. Can these attached IM's in anyway be authenticated by an outside party? (I have about 15 more) The system we used was Office 365 and the IM system was LYNC and then switched over to Skype for Business in early 2015. Or can someone go into eDisovery or my admin panel to see if they can retrieve any information? There is long back story below that I only included if someone wants to know why I would not preserve evidence and later litigate which I ask myself as well. I would like to see if anyone can yield any info by spending time in my Office 365 Admin account to see if they can recover anything.
Please let me know if this is a viable request and if you can help!
Thank you! ~ Carina
Backsory of Missing Instand Message backup.
I own an Recruitment Agency that working in the Renewable Energy sector. I opened this firm in 2010 which I bootstrapped myself. In mid 2011 I hired a business development consultant lets call her Defendant 1, I then hired another recruiter Defendant 2. D1and D2 worked togehter and in 2015 D2 downloaded my entire database consisting of 2400 candidate resumes, 164 client contacts, my full list of client accounts, every search assignment and job description I ever had since I opened my firm. As D1 was with my firm for one year and put in 200 resumes into my database during her tenure, she then left with all of my resumes and IP. It was like she just took my business and relocated it elsewhere.
Those two women took my database to another Recruitment firm with the owners knowledge and blessing. This firm opened a new "Renewable Energy" division by uploading my IP and within weeks they were closing business, which was essentially mine. The two women also put multiple deals that were closing on hold in my database and then opened them back up at their new firm and closed the deals that were mine leaving my recruiters who worked on those deals with nothing. To make it worse, I hire single mothers since I am one and was one when I opened my firm and faced a lot of obstacles being a sole provider to my then 16 month old boy. So I wanted to empower other women so they have a way to support their children working from home, get back in the workforce and be financially stable. So these two women stole out of childrens mouths which is even worse. My sales in 2015 before the theft was in the $1.3M range and after the theft in 2016 my sales were $318K and I have now started back where I was in 2011 rebuilding my business.
I filed a lawsuit in 2017 when I found an attorney to take my case without a $50K retainer. Part of the reason my attorney took my case were the Instant Messages I had found of the two women brazenly plotting this entire theft. It was over the course of August 2015 to January 2016 that they met with the owner of their new firm and talked about him all over these IM's and their new venture.
Here is my issue: When this occured we did not know about everything unitl later. The IM's were copy pasted by my 20 year old assistant who knew nothing of security or how to export a pst file and no one thought about the IM's. The two womens emails were eventually deleted with no backup. We have some PST files but not from 2015 only before that. We are left with a string of IM's showing premeditation and no way to authenticate them. We subpoenad Microsoft but they did not provide much. We may not have been specific enough or maybe all of it is deleted from the server.
Much of the information in the IM's can be verified by research; one of the women stating where their mother worked, types of camps her children were enrolled in, etc. And yes, D1 and D2 signed full contracts but in their depositions they said they were entitled to the information and they really have not a care in the world and if I cannot authenticate these IM's then they may be right.
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