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Over 60% of notebooks lost in airports are never claimed by owner

Anyone who has travelled by air with their laptop knows what a hassle it can be. If you forget to remove your laptop from your bag security officials will end up checking it for explosives before you can go on your way.

According to arecent study commissioned by Dell from the Ponemon Institute, some of the nation’s large and medium-size airports report that around 637,000 laptops are reported lost each year. The place a laptop is most likely to be lost is at a security checkpoint.

The study says that about 10,278 laptops are reported as lost each week at 36 of the nation’s largest airports and that out of that number of lost laptops 65% of them are not reclaimed. At medium-sized airports across the country, approximately 2,000 notebooks are lost each week and 69% of the lost computers at the medium airports are not reclaimed.

The study also polled travelers and found that 77% of those it surveyed report that they have no hope of recovering a lost laptop at the airport. More surprising is that the study found that 16% of travelers who lost a laptop while traveling on business would do nothing to get it back.

Of those surveyed, 53% say that they have confidential business information on their laptops and 65% of those people say that they take no steps to protect that confidential data. The Ponemon Institute says that in a survey of companies 76% report the loss of at least one laptop per year with 22% of that number resulting from theft or criminal mischief.

Dell is currently thesecond largest shipper of PCs in the world and used the study as a tool to promote its new laptop data security and recovery services.

dailytech.com