Him forgetting the password seems completely reasonable. But no way his lappy is unhackable, right?

Hacker is the new name for people who can use a screwdriver and put an HDD as slave of another ?

Edit : Oh my god, it implies the police has a Mac O_O I didn't think about that. They are screwed.

It depends on how it's locked. If he has encrypted the file-system with, say, truecrypt, we will never know what was on his laptop until he unlocks it.

For anyone willing to load 1,7 tb:

http://superdae.se/

edit: and it's encrypted, btw :)

It's a mac pro, you know how expensive that is? o.O

he did'nt forget the password. that's a lie.

It's not an issue of a password preventing log-in.  The data is encrypted.  Data encryption is extremely difficult to bypass without a password.

Perhaps he used a key instead of a password which would be even worse for the police.

Leaking details of an upcoming console is sufficient to have police raid your hard drive now?

No, that wasn't what did it.  He apparently was also hacking into several game studios.  Epic being one of them and Blizzard another.  He claimed he also hacked into Microsoft, but after Microsoft security personnel spoke to him they determined he didn't.

Microsoft has denied they're responsible, and whilst Microsoft personally paid him a visit as well and recovered their property (the devkit) they determined he didn't do anything illegal with regards to Microsoft.  That doesn't mean anything regarding any other company.

And for the record, leaking corporate information is a civil issue, not a criminal one.  Therefore, whatever he did is being investigated as a crime, therefore likely has nothing to do with the Durango Leaks.