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Last edited by: Adam_Palmer on September 12, 2011 1:00 PM

Cybercrime: A Shocking Picture of the Problem

Cybercrime costs $388 billion dollars in annual losses globally and it affected almost 7 in 10 adults last year.

This week Norton is released the results of the Norton Cybercrime Report 2011, a study on the impact of cybercrime that included a survey of over 12,000 adults in 24 countries.  This provides an important and accurate picture of the scope of cybercrime globally and the results are shocking!  Every day of the past year, over 1 million online adults in 24 countries experienced cybercrime.    This can also be broken down to 50,000  victims per hour, 820  victims per minute, or 14 victims every second.  In just the last 12 months 44% of people have been a victim of cybercrime while only 15% have been a victim of physical crime in the same period. 

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