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Laptop theft prevention can be as simple as a storage cabinet, or single laptop locker to secure loose laptops stored within corporations, schools, or government agencies. Below are statistics on laptop theft from wikipedia. Our secure storage cabinets protect laptops against theft and store laptops while being powered and also as an option, networkable.
According to the FBI, losses due to laptop theft totaled more than $6.7 million dollars in 2005. The Computer Security Institute/FBI Computer Crime & Security Survey found the average theft of a laptop to cost a company $89,000. For the last seven years, laptop theft has been found to cause the second highest amount of financial loss, second only to damage caused by viruses (2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey) -- referenced document does not make this claim, in fact claims that laptop theft is fourth.
- An unencrypted hard drive containing names, addresses and Social Security numbers of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) members was lost when it was shipped back to the organization by a computer repair company. Potentially 330,000 members were affected.
- A laptop that belonged to an Ernst & Young employee was stolen from a vehicle. The computer contained personal information of 243,000 Hotels.com customers.
- Two Federal Trade Commission laptops were stolen out of a locked car when staff attorneys took them home to work on a lawsuit. As a result, names, addresses and Social Security numbers of 110 people were exposed to thieves.
- American International Group, a major insurance company, became responsible for private data of 970,000 potential customers when their file server and several laptop computers were stolen from its Midwest offices.
- An Equifax Inc., company laptop was stolen from a travelling employee. Information compromised included employee names and Social Security numbers.
- 13,000 District of Columbia employees and retirees were put in danger of identity theft when a laptop belonging ING U.S. Financial Services was stolen from an employee’s home.
- A laptop containing debit card information and Social Security numbers of 65,000 persons was stolen from YMCA’s seemingly safe administrative offices.
- Personal data of 26.5 million U.S. veterans was on a laptop taken from the home of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee.
- Four laptop computers containing names, Social Security numbers, and addresses of 72,000 customers were stolen from the Medicaid insurance provider Buckeye Community Health Plan.
- A Boeing employee’s laptop
was grabbed at an airport, compromising 3,600 employees Social Security
numbers, addresses and phone numbers.
Statistics are courtesy
of wikipedia.com
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