Scarcely a day passes away without additional security breach casting at peril the personal details of the UK public. In this article, SecPoint gets you on a world tour of data breaches, applying global and local population statistics to put a few of the most infamous incidents into perspective.

TK Maxx: 46 million

TJ Maxx, or TK as we know it in the UK, seems to have been leaking out customer details for approximately four years. Over this period of time it estimates that worldwide it doomed, or misplaced, the details of 46 million customers. In order for the business firm to get a genuinely good estimate of how many people that would have affected, we would like the whole population of Spain to form an orderly queue and say "Hola" to TK Maxx. We said orderly.

HMRC: 25 million

Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs was truly discomfited when it mislaid 25 million personal details before this year. 25 million citizenry accounts for almost half the UK population after all. If you'd care an idea of how many people that affected, go to among the following countries and shake the hand of everybody you meet. So, bolt down over and greet the hospitable people of Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan or North Korea. Comfortably, maybe friendly is a bit affirmative

Nationwide Building Society: 11 million

The Nationwide Building Society could have fronted the wrath from the entire population of Chad, Greece or Belgium - Ooooooh! Belgium! - When a member of its staff was heisted. Due to the loss of laptop carrying personal information, the building society had to get through each of its customers and let them acknowledge what was going on. All 11 million of them. That is a lot of impressions to figure out.

DVLA: 3 million

The DVLA was uncomfortable when computer equipment belonging to a third party became absent along with the personal details of three million British apprentice drivers. When it falls to dependable security operations we are sorry to say them they have broke down. Merely rather than someone from office turn up and tell them, we have asked the citizens of Mauritania to turn left at the next junction, perform a three-point turn and then come to an emergency stop in front of the DVLA's Cardiff headquarters.

HSBC: 370,000

HSBC lost the details of 370,000 clients in April this year when somebody burned them to disc and idly tossed them into a company out tray. Someplace along the route from desk, to post boy, to post man, to the door, the discs got lost. In ordination to allow for the lucky bank with an equal population, Researchers have to send them to the Bahamas. They tried this, but in some manner the package got lost en route and they ended up in Leicester.

Deloitte: 150,000

People of Swindon, population 150,000, felt scared. Completely of your personal details might have gone asunder if they had been in the hands of an employee of Deloitte. Until recently the firm was the external auditor for RMPI, the group that administers the railway pension scheme. Since with young master Deloitte and his laptop, RMPI and Deloitte have since gone their separate ways.