60K mobile phones left in London taxis in the last six months

According to a survey released , in the last six months alone, Londoners have forgotten a staggering 55,843 mobile phones (that’s almost 3 per taxi) and 6,193 other handheld devices such as laptops, iPods and memory sticks

Many of these devices now have the capacity to store as much as 10,000 Word documents, 11,000 pictures, 500,000 contact details or an amazing 1.1 million emails, making them an obvious target for identity theft criminals and hackers who can steal this information and assume the identity of the user both in their personal or business life.