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THE NUMBER of people affected by data loss is set to increase in 2009, according to KPMG’s Data Loss Barometer, with up to 190 million around the world expected to be hit.

This compares with 92 million people in 2008, with the 47.8 million affected by data loss in the three months to November 2008 outstripping the total for the first eight months of the year.