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Costs of Lost and Stolen Laptops Go Beyond Hardware

June 1, 2009

A study, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, calculated that laptops and notebooks lost or stolen cost their corporate owners an average of $49,246, reflecting the value of the enclosed data above the cost of the PC.