Security News > 2021 > May > FBI says cybercrime complaints more than doubled in 14 months
2021-05-18 16:20
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has seen a massive 100% in cybercrime complaints over the past 14 months.
When the IC3 first began logging complaints in 2000, it took seven years to reach 1 million complaints.
It has taken an average of 29.5 months for each additional million complaints.
For the period between March 2020 and May 2021, the IC3 saw a massive increase of 1 million complaints in just 14 months.
The FBI attributes the rise in complaints to cyber criminals taking advantage of people working from home due to the pandemic and the rise in COVID-19 themed attacks.
As part of the report, the FBI says the top three crimes reported in 2020 were phishing scams, non-payment/non-delivery scams, and extortion.