V3 – McAfee got hold of the data from Transport for London (TfL) and found that in total 15,833 mobile phones were handed to its lost property department after being lefts on trains, buses and tubes. To date only 2,308 have been returned, with 13,525 still unclaimed.
Even larger sized devices are prone to being lost, with 506 misplaced tablets during the past year, up from just 17 lost tablets in 2009. So far only 290 of the 506 were reclaimed. Perhaps even more worryingly, a total of 528 laptops were handed in and 191 are yet to be claimed.
