Many issues with this of course..
but from the educational viewpoint, she shouldn't (couldn't?) be storing the '12 months of coursework on her laptop'.
How is that feasible, would she be copying it over from the learners and destroying the original?
Losing her feedback on submitted evidence I can believe being on there, but that must have been shared with the learners anyway, and if needed she can recreate that, and even then the internal (and external) requirements would mean that it has been verified by someone else at some stage too, again impractical to only have one copy on a standalone laptop.
I'm not calling BS on the tale, just what she claims to have lost.