FBI: in 2023, Americans reported $12.5B+ in losses to online fraud, up 22% YoY; losses to investment fraud grew 38% YoY to $4.57B, with $3.94B related to crypto
More than $12.5 billion was lost in 2023 to online fraud in cases reported by the American public, according …
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NEW: Complaints about #cyber crime - and resulting losses - jump from 2022 to 2023, per @FBI annual report The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) got 880,418 complaints in 2023, up 10% Losses from cybercrime jumped 22% to $12.6 billion
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Today, the #FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center released the 2023 Internet Crime Report. The annual report includes information from over 880,000 complaints of suspected internet crime. Learn more: https://www.fbi.gov/... [image]
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The @FBI report found #ransomware complaints were up by 18% in 2023 It found ransomware-related losses were up 74% from 2022 to 2023 - to $59.6 million 2023 also saw a 53% increase in crypto-investment fraud losses - to $3.94 billion https://www.ic3.gov/...