India Amongst Top Five Nations In Cybercrime Victims: Report

FBI’s officially published report ranks India in the top five of cybercrime victims globally. India has found itself on this list for the second time in a row.

The report was published by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a branch of the FBI that investigates cybercrime in the US and worldwide, that showed India in the fourth place behind the US, UK and Canada, when it comes to cybercrime victims.

“In 2021, heightened attention was brought to the urgent need for more cyber incident reporting to the federal government. Cyber incidents are in fact crimes deserving of an investigation, leading to judicial repercussions for the perpetrators who commit them,” said FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate, in the report.

According to the report, the US saw the highest number of victims at 466,501, the United Kingdom (UK) and Canada followed in the second and third place with 303,949 and 5788 victims respectively. India logged a total of 3131 victims of cybercrimes last year.