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Heathrow is named as hotspot for lost laptops
Wed, 30 Jul 2008
New figures show that airports in Europe and the US are world hotspots for laptops to go missing, approx 800,000 a year.

The Dell sponsored research carried out by the Ponemon Institute, found that 175,000 laptops go missing every year in major airports across Europe, which is about 4,000 a week.

The highest number of laptops disappear at Heathrow airport in London, 900 per week with Amsterdam and Charles de Gaulle in Paris not far behind.

In the US the estimate laptops lost in airports is 12,000 a week.

A worrying outcome of the research is that 42 per cent of business travellers do not have a back up of the data on their laptops and 55 per cent had no data protection in place.

57 per cent of the laptops that make it to airport lost property are not claimed. Some say this is because laptops do not have any external identification labels.

Larry Ponemon, Ponemon Institute chairman said IT departments must review their business latpop security to protect the data held on them.