Computer misuse crimes across England and Wales have declined over the past year – with credential theft attacks remaining more or less flat in the pre-COVID reporting period.
The Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW) recorded a total of 876,000 incidents of computer misuse affecting 743,000 adults across the UK over the past year, a figure that was down by 9 per cent on 2019's total of 966,000 incidents.
In the 12 months to March 2020 the CSEW recorded 360,000 "computer virus" incidents across Britain in the year to March, of which 253,000 resulted in precisely zero financial losses. A further 516,000 computer misuse reports, making up the rest of the year's total, concerned "unauthorised access to personal information".
These latest statistics are, however, drawn from the Crime Survey of England and Wales, meaning they should be taken as an indication rather than authoritative measure of crime levels. Rather than being a me ..
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