Is it possible to recover the password for a MY PASSPORT portable hard drive?

A former employee did a lot of work for us and stored it on a WD My Passport WDBYNN0010BBK, but left the company and did not tell us what the login name and password were for the portable drive, so now we cannot access the drive nor the data… if indeed there is still any data on the drive. And, No, he will not talk with us nor respond to emails/phone. :frowning:

Is there ANY way possible to recover the data or the drive? TY.