FBI: Americans lost $7B in 2021 to Internet crime – By Darryl Coote (UPI) / March 23, 2022
March 23 (UPI) — Americans reported losses surpassing $6.9 billion to Internet crime last year, according to a new report from the FBI.
Released on Tuesday, the annual Internet Crime Report states Americans filed 847,376 complaints concerning a wide array of Internet scams, representing a 7% increase from the year previous.
“In 2021, America experienced an unprecedented increase in cyber attacks and malicious cyber activity,” Paul Abbate, deputy director of the FBI, said in the report. “These cyber attacks compromised businesses in an extensive array of business sectors as well as the American public.”
Among the 2021 complaints received, ransomware, business e-mail compromise schemes and the criminal use of cryptocurrency were among those most reported, it said.
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