US COMPUTER SECURITY INDUSTRY AND FBI SURVEY ESTIMATES THE COST TO OWNER OF A LOST OR STOLEN COMPUTER DATA TO BE $ 89,000 Travel Insurance Tips: 3 Essential Reasons To Have Travel Insurance:

2. Damage To or Loss of Personal Property.

Theft of personal property is probably the most common reason for claiming on travel insurance. Theft of property at airports is common in a number of countries. What would you do if you arrived in a foreign place and were only left with the clothes you were wearing? Even worse if you lost your money and passport as well. Situations like this can't be avoided. If they are going to happen to you, they will happen. The best you can do is protect yourself with travel insurance that covers such losses. These days, one of the major risks of loss while travelling is the loss of your laptop computer. If you are a business traveller, the risk is higher. It is not so much the loss of the hardware that is important, it is the loss of the valuable data on the computer that can be a more expensive loss. A Computer Security Industry and FBI survey in 2002 valued the average loss of data from computer theft at $89,000. Make sure you ask your travel insurance provider if your policy covers data loss as well as hardware loss and try to have a system to backup your data online if possible.
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