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FBI Reports Record Financial Losses to Cybercrime

Kelly Jackson Higgins writes on Dark Reading:

The U.S. economy may be tanking, but the cybercrime economy is booming, according to the latest report [.pdf] from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.

Dollar losses to cybercrime increased to $240 million in 2007, a $40 million jump from 2006, according to the IC3's newly released 2007 Internet Crime Report. The IC3 received 206,884 reports of Internet crime last year, 90,000 of which were then picked up by law enforcement, according to the report.

And that’s not including the cybercrimes that went unreported to the IC3.

posted by Fergie @ 4/03/2008 04:06:00 PM