Many business passengers travel with a laptop
1000s of laptops go missing at Europe''s airports
30 July 2008Every week a significant number of laptops go missing from Europe''s top airports posing a dangerous security risk to passengers, according to a new study.
Research by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Dell revealed that more than 3,000 laptops are lost at airports across Europe on a weekly basis while 57 per cent of the missing computers are never reclaimed.
Passengers traveling through Heathrow may consider travel insurance as the airport is the worst place for missing laptops with around 900 a week while Amsterdam Schiphol loses 750 and Paris Charles de Gaulle is responsible for 733 lost computers.
Larry Ponemon, chairman of the Ponemon Institute, said: "It''s staggering to learn that more than 175,000 laptops are lost or go missing in the major European airports every year, with many containing sensitive information that organisations must account for."
Many passengers are unprepared for losing their laptop as 42 per cent of mobile professionals have admitted to not backing up their data and 55 per cent of business travelers have not attempted to secure their private information.
The study calculated that around 12,000 laptops are lost, missing or stolen each week in American airports.
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