Laptop Theft Breach Statistics – 2008

According to Data Loss DB, a data breach clearing house, more than 32% of data breaches were the result of a lost or stolen laptop, mobile phone, or other portable media device. If you compare this to the fact that only 14% of data breaches were the result of a hacking event, you begin to see where the real problem lies with regards to data security, it is outside the firewall.

Desktop sales have slumped dramatically, in favor of notebook computers as well as the newer and smaller netbooks, as a result laptop and mobile device theft and loss related data breaches are expected to sky rocket this year.