Internet Crime Costs Americans Billions
While investor focus this week looks to be squarely on COVID-19 and its potential economic impact, the very real costs of cybersecurity threats, which are features in our Safety & Security investment theme, continue to grow at an impressive pace, rising nearly 30% in 2019 from 2018 and nearly 340% over the past 5 years.
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According Statista,
“The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2019 Internet Crime Reportwhich found that 2019 was a record year for both victims of internet crime and dollar losses in the United States. 467,361 complaints were logged by IC3 in the last calendar year – 1,300 per day on average. The most frequent internet crimes recorded in 2019 were phishing, non-payment/non-delivery scams and extortion. Individuals and businesses lost $3.5 billion in total, an increase on the $2.7 billion lost in 2018.”
Donna Gregory, the chief of IC3, said that while the FBI did not see an increase in new types of fraud in 2019, “criminals are getting so sophisticated” and that “it is getting harder and harder for victims to spot the red flags and tell real from fake.” The companies in the Foxberry Tematica Research Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Index look to provide solutions for and benefit from this growing problem.
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Source: • Chart: Americans Are Losing Billions Due To Internet Crime | Statista
