A survey of small businesses found of those companies that lost customer data:

• 30% lost sales as a result
• 20% lost customers
• 25% said the data loss caused them severe disruptions
• 20% had no backups at all

Survey of small businesses found the most common causes of data loss, from most to least common, were:

• Hard Disk failure
• Software bug
• Destroyed by malware
• Accident
• Fire or disaster
• Erased by hacker
• Computer stolen
• Lost password
• Malicious employee
• and Natural Disasters can destroy your valuable data: Forever in an instant.