Data Theft Statistics

Ask Police about Laptop / Computer / Data theft and you’ll soon realize how big a problem it really is. Thousands of Laptops and PC's are stolen annually from Vehicles, Offices, Factories and Homes. The actual cost to replace a Laptop / Computer is negligible compared to the cost of replacing data that has not been backed up.

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Statistics About Data Theft

The following are some alarming statistics collected from various web sites and newspaper articles about the increasing rate of the theft of laptops / PC's / hand-held devices / data theft between 2002 and 2004.

Once you have finished reading this page you will realise the rapid increasing rate of data theft and the real cost in Dollar terms from just one stolen Laptop / PC no matter whether you are a one man business, a small business, a large corporation or whether you just use a Laptop / PC at home.

You should also realise why you should backup your new data every day and secure it in a SECURE LOCATION preferably OFF SITE or if you work from a home office secure your backed up data in different room from where you keep your Computer.

You will be shocked at these alarming statistics,

I know I was when researching data theft.

Laptop / PC Theft and Recovery Statistics

A recent study discloses it takes 19 days and cost in excess $17,000 to re-enter just 20 megabytes worth of sales and marketing data. Retrieving accounting records is even worse; they require over 21 days of work and cost over $19,000 to re-type. For many businesses, this kind of cost can force the closure of a business and probably BANKRUPTCY...

There are nearly as many laptops stolen from Government and Corporate offices during business hours as there are from vehicles and homes when no one is there. This is an alarming statistic that business owners, managers and directors can easily STOP with some security procedures in place for when laptops are left unattended.

General Statistics

Most of the following statistics are from American studies. Most countries have the same problem.

Bullet Laptop theft doubled in 2004.
Bullet CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 2004. More than 600,000 Laptops / PC's were stolen in 2003. - Safeware The Insurance Agency 2004
Bullet Theft ranks as the number two cause for overall Laptop / PC loss. - Safeware The Insurance Agency 2003
Bullet Laptop / PC theft has been attributed to 59% of Computer attacks in Government agencies, corporations and universities during 2003. - Baseline 2004
Bullet Computer crime statistics reveal that approximately 80% of Computer crime consists of "inside jobs" by disgruntled employees. - Gartner Group
Bullet 73% of companies do not have specific security policies for their Laptops / PC's. - Gartner Group 2003
Bullet 80% of those surveyed acknowledged financial losses due to Computer breaches. - CSI / FBI 2002
Bullet 97% of stolen laptops / PC's are never recovered. - FBI
Bullet The average company loss due to the theft of just one Laptop / PC is more than $47,000. CSI / FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 2003

Key Findings of the 2003 BSI Computer Theft Survey

Bullet Almost half (44.5%) of the survey respondents have been the victim of Computer theft in the last 12 months.
Bullet 53% of Laptop theft occurred while left unattended and unsecured in a Vehicle.
Bullet Nearly three quarters (72.5%) of respondent companies had between 1 and 9 Laptops / PC's stolen in the last 12 months; nearly 1 in 10 (9.7%) respondent companies had more than 25 Laptops / PC's stolen in the last 12 months.
Bullet Laptops comprised nearly half (48%) of those devices reported stolen, followed by desktop computers (26.7%) and PDA's (13.3%).
Bullet 99% of survey respondents that experienced Computer theft report the thief was never caught.
Bullet 67.7% of respondents report the estimated value of proprietary data on their stolen computing device at $25,000 or less; 9.2% estimated the value at $1,000.000 or more and 2.3% estimated the value at more than $10,000,000.
Bullet The value of proprietary data on respondents stolen computers averaged an astounding $690,759.61 per stolen Computer.
Bullet 45.6% of respondents report other items were stolen at the time of the Computer theft, with removable media (including spare disks, stored files on CDs, removable media and spare hard drives) accounting for 21.8% of the additional stolen items.
Bullet 46.7% of respondents that experienced Computer theft had multiple incidences of theft in the last 12 months.
Bullet Nearly two-thirds (63.5%) of Computer thefts occurred outside traditional business hours.
Bullet Average total replacement cost of stolen computing devices was $14,227.27 per device. This does not include the cost of the data on the computing device.
Bullet 72.7% of respondents reported downtime due to Computer theft ranging from several days to more than one month.
Bullet 60.1% of respondent organizations do not have written guidelines on how to safeguard Computers from theft.
Bullet 60.4% of respondent organizations do not provide security guidelines.
Bullet 76.2% of respondent organizations do not have written guidelines on how to respond to the theft of a Computer.
Bullet 79.3% of respondent organizations do not provide employees with the name and contact information of a specific point of contact when a computing device goes missing.
Bullet 81.5% of respondent organizations do not conduct periodic security awareness programs on Computer theft.
Bullet 85.4% of respondent organizations do not have a written policy making employees financially responsible for Computer theft if security guidelines are not followed.
Bullet 89.6% of respondent organizations do not have written guidelines on protecting proprietary information on computing devices while travelling.

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If you don't you risk losing your valuable

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