Computer crime has risen 33% in the past year, according to
figures from the US-based
Internet Crime Complaint
Centre.
The centre is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Centre. It
said
crime rates had jumped between 2007 and 2008.
It received 275,284 complaints in 2008, up from 206,884 in 2007,
the Telegraph reported.
The jump reflects the increasingly sophisticated methods of
hackers taking advantage of ever-growing amounts of personal and
financial data stored on the web.
The most common type of crime complaint was the non-delivery of
merchandise or payment. But complaints ranged from credit card
fraud to spam to child pornography.
The average individual loss in the US from computer crime was
$931 last year.
Read more about computer crime:
McAfee donates $110,000 to train cybercrime fighters
>>
Japanese cybercrime stats are a red flag for West >>
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee calls for action against cybercrime
>>
Cybercrime trading site DarkMarket was FBI honey trap
>>