Hi DJC, effectively I managed to catch them myself very easily. I simply put the IP address they used into various trackers you can use online and they returned 'Privax Ltd' which owns 'Hidemyass' VPN.

I had the date and time logs from my email account and asked Microsoft for approved official logs. The Police then approached 'Hidemyass' and the their login times and web address visits were matched to a customer account. So at that point we had their names and whatever details were on their VPN account.

Sadly the Police messed it up. After some research, I warned them that 'Hidemyass' could delete all customer details after 3 months. They assured me the VPN company would keep all the details so it wasn't an issue. Then of course they just deleted the details after 3 months were up along with all their other customers. The reason being, the Police failed to get something called a 'single point of contact'. So despite assurances that they would keep the customers details, without the single point of contact they were entitled to delete them. So they did. Less bad press for them I suppose.

So their VPN lived up to their name.

I managed to catch some IP addresses on my email account trying to break in which the Police have followed up on, so the investigations continue.

They don't seem to be particularly good hackers. I just made it insanely easy for them.

My main hope lies for now on anyone who knows them stepping forward and taking a legit half share of what was stolen.