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Japan: Cybercrime jumped 40% in 2006

Via The Yomiuri Shimbun Daily.

There were 4,425 reported instances of cybercrime last year, up 40 percent from the previous year and the highest number since 2000, when police began keeping statistics, the National Police Agency said Thursday.

Cybercrime has increased every year since 2000, when there were 913 reported cases, the NPA said.

The NPA report stressed that an increasing number of Net-based crime involved password theft, and that "Internet users should take preventive measures including not submitting their passwords to suspicious Web sites."

posted by Fergie @ 2/23/2007 10:34:00 AM