A Freedom of Information report has announced that BBC staff has lost or had stolen £240,019 of laptops and mobile phones between April 2008 and March 2010. Over the two year period BBC staff reported 146 laptops, 65 mobile phones and 17 Blackberry’s lost or stolen.
The BBC said that they take any thefts seriously and computer security company Absolute Software warned staff to be more careful. David Everitt from the security firm said, “It is shocking that any organisation could lose so much equipment, but the BBC is just one of many we’ve seen recently, proving it’s all too common.†Adding that, “In this case, however, this technology is paid for by the licence payer and employees should be far more careful about how they handle it.”
The BBC aren’t the worst offenders though, as early last month a study by Lewis Communications stated that government departments had reported over £700,000 worth of technology lost or stolen over the same time period; this included 518 laptops, 104 mobile phones, 131 Blackberry’s and 932 electronic storage devices.
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