Almost Half Of Australian Internet Users, Victims Of Cybercrime: Gov't Report
The report, which was compiled by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) based on surveys of over 10,000 internet users, found that 47.4 per cent of respondents said they had been a victim of a cybercrime in the preceding 12 months.
Almost two-thirds of respondents, 63.9 per cent, said they had been a victim of at least one cybercrime in their lifetime.
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