I'm not sure how it was in 2012 either. It was a pretty old Mac, even at the time, so it's possible that they could have done some kind of wiping. I don't know

I'm not sure how it was in 2012 either. It was a pretty old Mac, even at the time, so it's possible that they could have done some kind of wiping. I don't know. I hope it ended up in a landfill or as a paperweight because of their incompetence in setting it up for me, just as a final middle finger to that terrible job. I certainly am not just going to give some random person who I don't like my password for free. I was using that password for multiple things at the time (I know, bad practice, I don't do that anymore), and for all I know they would have written that password down on a Post-It note on the manager's desk for someone to happily steal.