Cyber crime losses in US almost ‘double’ during 2009

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 | Filed under Cybersecurity | Posted by

“US losses to online crime almost doubled during 2009, reveals a report.

Losses totalled $560m (£371m) in 2009, up from $265m (£176m) in 2008, showed the annual report by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

Complaints about online fraud grew 22% during 2009 and the IC3 received more than 336,655 reports of high-tech crime incidents from victims. “

(Source: BBC News – Cyber crime losses in US almost ‘double’ during 2009.)

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