In 2023, individuals over the age of 60 accounted for the highest number of recorded cyber crime victims in the United States. According to the latest data, more than 104,068 people reported cyber crimes in the year examined. The second-most targeted were individuals between 30 and 39 years, with over 88 thousand complaints.

In 2023, the most common type of cyber crime reported to the United States internet Crime Complaint Center was phishing and spoofing, affecting approximately 298 thousand individuals. In addition, over 55 thousand cases of personal data breaches cases were reported to the IC3 during that year. Dynamic of phishing attacks Over the past few years, phishing attacks have increased significantly. In 2023, almost 300 thousand individuals fell victim to such attacks. The highest number of phishing scam victims since 2018 was recorded in 2021, approximately 324 thousand.Phishing attacks can take many shapes. Bulk phishing, smishing, and business e-mail compromise (BEC) are the most common types. In 2023, 76 percent of the surveyed worldwide organizations reported encountering bulk phishing attacks, while roughly three in four were targeted by smishing scams. Impact of phishing attacks Among the most targeted industries by cybercriminals are healthcare, financial, manufacturing, and education institutions. An observation carried out in the first quarter of 2023 found that social media was most likely to encounter phishing attacks. According to the reports, almost a quarter of them stated being targeted by a phishing scam in the measured period. Very often, phishing e-mails contain a crucial risk for the organization. Almost three in ten worldwide organizations that have experienced phishing attacks suffered from a customer or a client data breach as a consequence. Phishing scams that delivered ransomware infections were also common for the surveyed organizations.

In 2023, individuals over 60 years in the United States accounted for the highest amount of financial losses of reported cyber crime in the United States. People in this age group lost around 3.4 billion U.S. dollars. Despite filing the second highest number of complaints, cyber crime victims aged between 30 and 39 old did not have as high financial losses.

In 2023, investment fraud was the cybercrime causing the most severe financial damage for the individuals in the United States. Overall, victim losses in this category were over 4.5 billion U.S. dollars. Business e-mail compromise (BEC) ranked second, amounting to around 2.9 billion U.S. dollars in reported victim losses. A further 924 million U.S. dollars were reported in losses for tech support fraud victims.

A September 2023 survey of American adults found that three in 10 respondents had experienced financial fraud or cybercrime. Individuals between 35 and 54 years were more often targeted by financial cybercrime, with 36 percent stating so. Among the younger generation, individuals between 18 and 34 years, this share was lower, 22 percent.

Between November 2022 and October 2023, over 30 thousand cybercrime incidents were detected worldwide. Of this total, over 900 cases involved small companies. The organizations in the public administration sector were the most affected among the industries researched, with reported 12,217 cybercrime cases. The finance sector ranked second, while the professional sector followed, with over 2,500 incidents in each industry.

In 2023, the monetary damage caused by cybercrime reported to the United States' Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) saw a year-over-year increase of around 21 percent, amounting to a historical peak of 12.5 billion U.S. dollars. Cybercrime in the U.S. Cybercrime continues to be one of the biggest challenges for governments around the world. In the United States, phishing and personal data breaches were among the most reported categories of cybercrime in 2022, with over 300 thousand people falling victim to phishing attacks. Additionally, data breaches cost the U.S. organizations over nine million U.S. dollars on average as of January 2023. Identity theft is a serious issue in the U.S. Along with other reported online crimes, identity theft was a prevalent issue that affected millions of people in the United States. The country ranked second globally in reported cases of identity theft, with an estimated 13.5 million Americans falling victim to this crime. As a result, millions of users had their lives turned upside down. In January 2023, 43 percent of identity theft victims reported wasting their time resolving issues, while 33 percent had no choice but to freeze their credit cards. Furthermore, sometimes threat actors targeted seniors, as in 2022, more than 4800 individuals over 60 reported being victims of identity theft.

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India saw a significant jump in cyber crimes reported in 2022 from the previous year. That year, over ****** cyber crime incidents were registered. Karnataka and Telangana accounted for the highest share during the measured period. Uttar Pradesh leads the wayThe northern state of Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of cyber crimes compared to the rest of the country, with over * thousand cases registered with the authorities in 2018 alone. India’s tech state, Karnataka, followed suite that year. A majority of these cases were registered under the IT Act with the motive to defraud, or sexually exploit victims. It's a numbers game It was estimated that in 2017, consumers in India collectively lost over 18 billion U.S. dollars due to cyber crimes. However, these were estimates based only on reported numbers. In a country like India, it is highly likely that the actual figures could be under-reported due to a lack of cyber crime awareness or the mechanisms to classify them. Recent government initiatives such as a dedicated online portal to report cyber crimes could very well be the main factor behind a sudden spike in online crimes from 2017 onwards.

In 2022, approximately 27,500 internet users in Italy were victims of cybercrime. Over 3,000 women aged between 45 and 54 years in Italy were victim of cybercrime. Across almost all age demographics, women and female kids were more likely to fall victim to cybercrimes. Young women aged between 18 and 24 years were more likely then men in the same age to be targeted by cybercrime in Italy in 2022: 2,100 women reported being targeted by cybercrime, against 1,700 men of the same age group.

In 2023, individuals aged 60 and older in the United States lost more than 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in online investment fraud, an increase from 990 million U.S. dollars in the previous year. This was the cybercrime type, causing the most significant monetary damage to the elderly victims. Tech support scams ranked second, causing the victims around 590 million U.S. dollars in losses. Romance scams followed third, registering nearly 356 million U.S. dollar losses in the examined year.

The majority of respondents were especially concerned about being a victim of bank card or online banking fraud. At the same time, 67 percent of respondents were worried about having their devices infected with malicious software.

A September 2023 survey of American adults found that the most frequently experienced type of financial cybercrime was credit card fraud, reported by roughly 64 percent of respondents. The breach of financial data was ranked second, followed by account hacking.

This statistic shows the share of small and medium enterprise owners in the United States who said their business has been the victim of cybercrime, by crime type, based on the Statista survey conducted between September 28th and October 7th, 2016. 89.4 percent of those SME owners surveyed said their business had not been a victim of cybercrime. Of those that had been victims, the most common type of crime was customer data being stolen with 4.8 percent of respondents stating it had occurred to them.

In 2022, California ranked first by the amount of monetary losses through cybercrime. Overall, the state had over two billion U.S. dollars of reported losses. Texas was the second by cybercrime losses, reporting around one billion U.S. dollars of losses, while Florida followed with 874 million U.S. dollars.

In a survey on personal security conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics in Israel in 2022, over 903,100 members of the Arab population reflected little or no fear of being victims of cyber-crime. Nearly 182,000 members of the Arab population expressed a very high or high level of fear of being victims of cyber-crime in the country that year.

In 2022, approximately 29,000 men aged between 45 and 54 years in Italy were victims of online swindles and cyber fraud. Women of the same age that fell victim to online fraud and internet scams were 23,347 in 2022. In comparison, approximately 850 teenagers between 14 and 17 years were victim of cyber fraud and online swindlers. Approximately across all age demographics, men and male kids were more likely to fall victim to online fraud in the last examined period.

This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted in the United States in 2018 on compensation for internet crimes. Some 21 percent of respondents state the provider of the protection software should compensate them in case they become victim of an internet crime. The Survey Data Table for the Statista survey Cybersecurity in the United States 2018 contains the complete tables for the survey including various column headings.

In 2023, the number of cybercrime victims in Spain went over 354,610. Cybercrimes in the country have been constantly growing, as the amount of victimizations already doubled in the period from 2018 to 2021, and currently account for over 19 percent of all felonies committed in the country.

During the first half of 2024, the number of cyberattacks on the healthcare sector constituted approximately 18 percent of the total incidents in the country. Strikes directed at multiple targets made up 16 percent of cyberattacks. Cyberattacks to the government, the military, and law enforcement agencies made up almost 13 percent of the total, while attacks to the financial and insurance sectors represented eight percent of the total for the year.