Companies can incur fines of up to £500,000 if data is mishandled, lost or stolen.

Identity theft is one of the UK’s fastest growing crimes with 3/4 ‘s of the UK population having been exposed to ID fraud.

Personal data theft is behind 65% of all fraud cases in the UK.

Identity theft is Britain's fastest-growing white-collar crime, increasing at nearly 500% a year

An annual figure of £1.3 billion pa is the minimum quantifiable cost to the economy arising from identity fraud