Cybercrime Statistics 2026

Accessibility description: 2025 complaint highlights: 1,008,597 complaints; $20.877 billion in losses; 26% increase in losses from 2024; $20,699 Average Loss.

We now average almost 3,000 complaints per day.

Cyber-enabled fraud complaint highlights: 452,868 complaints; $17.697 billion in losses; accounts for 45% of all 2025 complaints and 85% of all 2025 losses.

In 2025, the FTC received 3 million fraud reports from consumers, who reported $15.9 billion in losses—a substantial increase from the previous year when consumers submitted 2.6 million fraud reports and reported fraud losses of over $12 billion, according to the testimony.

In 2025, the FTC received 3 million fraud reports from consumers, who reported $15.9 billion in losses—a substantial increase from the previous year when consumers submitted 2.6 million fraud reports and reported fraud losses of over $12 billion, according to the testimony.

The agency received more than 1 million reports about imposter scams, with consumers reporting more than $3.5 billion in losses.

Cryptocurrency investment fraud was the highest source of financial losses to Americans in 2025 with $7.2 billion reported in losses.

However, overall losses to Investment scams exceeded $8 billion, demonstrating that many victims do not realize the extent AI may be involved in scams.

In 2025, losses in Investment complaints with a reported AI-nexus, surpassed $632 million.

In 2025, the number of complaints totaled more than 80,000 , with losses exceeding $2.9 billion.

In 2025, IC3 received more than 75,000 submissions regarding sextortion .

Consumers, however, reported losing the most money ($7.9 billion) to investment scams in 2025.

Last year, people reported losing nearly $1 billion to business impersonators with the highest reported losses to bank impersonators—and about $920 million to government impersonators, up from $866 million and $789 million respectively in 2024.

Describes Elder Fraud highlights: 201,266 complaints (37% increase from 2024); $7,748 billion losses (59% increase from 2024); $38,500 average loss; 12,444 complainants lost more than $100K.

Describes Elder Fraud highlights: 201,266 complaints (37% increase from 2024); $7,748 billion losses (59% increase from 2024); $38,500 average loss; 12,444 complainants lost more than $100K.

Describes Elder Fraud highlights: 201,266 complaints (37% increase from 2024); $7,748 billion losses (59% increase from 2024); $38,500 average loss; 12,444 complainants lost more than $100K.

A vast majority of Americans (84%) say adults 65 and older are extremely or very likely to fall victim to online scams and attacks.

About a quarter of 18- to 29-year-olds say they’ve lost money in this way, compared with 15% of those 65 and older.

Total fraud losses reported by older adults (ages 60 and over) increased about fivefold from 2020 to 2025, skyrocketing from about $600 million in 2020 to approximately $3 billion in 2025.

Total reported fraud losses by older adults to investment scams jumped 42% in 2025 to over $1 billion, with consumers reporting that scammers often reach them on social media.

We find that 73% of U.S. adults have ever experienced things like credit card fraud, ransomware or online shopping scams.

Overall, about three-quarters (73%) say at least one has, with 32% saying it’s happened in the past year.

More than nine-in-ten say online scams and attacks are a problem in the country, including 79% who describe them as a major problem.

About half of U.S. adults (48%) report this has happened to them.

29% say a personal online account was hacked, such as a social media, email or bank account.

In our survey, roughly one-in-five U.S. adults (21%) say they have ever lost money because of an online scam or attack.

A minority of this group – 26% – say they have informed law enforcement.

There were an estimated 4.5 million incidents of fraud in the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) year ending (YE) June 2026, an 11% increase compared with the YE June 2025 survey (4.1 million incidents).

This was because of a 13% increase in bank and credit account fraud (to 2.8 million incidents).

Computer misuse There were an estimated 817,000 incidents of computer misuse in the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) year ending (YE) June 2026, a 23% increase compared with last year's survey (663,000 incidents).

There were 348,944 fraud offences reported to Report Fraud directly in YE June 2026, a 15% increase compared with the previous year.

The survey estimated that 19% of businesses and 14% of charities have been victims of at least one cyber crime in the past year, accounting for approximately 267,000 businesses and 28,000 charities.

Using mean number of cyber crimes [footnote 2] , it was estimated that UK businesses have experienced approximately 5.19 million cyber crimes of all types including approximately 70,000 non-phishing cyber crimes in the last 12 months.

Phishing cyber crime remained the most prevalent type of cyber crime (accounting for 93% of businesses and 95% of charities that experienced a cyber crime), equating to 18% of all businesses and 13% of all charities, while other forms were less common.

An estimated 3% of all businesses and 1% of all charities have been a victim of fraud that resulted from a cyber breach or attack (cyber-facilitated fraud) in the last 12 months, equating to approximately 43,000 businesses and 3,000 charities.

For the ETL 2025 report, ENISA analysts collected and analysed 4 875 incidents, mainly based on information from open sources, as well as anonymised information shared by EU Member States (EU MSs) and members of the ENISA Cyber Partnership Programme2.

Phishing remains the dominant intrusion vector (60%) and is evolving through techniques used in large- scale campaigns.

In FY2024–25, ASD’s ACSC received over 84,700 cybercrime reports through ReportCyber; however, ASD’s ACSC assesses that the vast majority of cybercrime continues to go unreported.

In FY2024–25, ASD’s ACSC received over 42,500 calls to the Australian Cyber Security Hotline, a 16% increase from the previous year.

Average self-reported cost of cybercrime per report for businesses, up 50% overall ($80,850)

Note: In FY2024–25, the average self-reported financial cost of cybercrime to large business increased by 219%.

In FY2024–25, ASD’s ACSC responded to 138 ransomware incidents, 39% of which were the result of ASD’s ACSC contacting the entity to warn of a possible cyber security incident.

In 2025, the police-reported rate of total fraud (comprising general fraud, identity theft and identity fraud) decreased 4% to 492 incidents per 100,000 population.

The police-reported rate of extortion decreased for the second consecutive year, down 10% to 29 incidents per 100,000 population in 2025.

This study of 1,160 Canadian adults shows that scam exposure is widespread, with 84% of participants encountering a scam in the past year.

Ultimately, 6% experienced financial or data loss, with only 3% reporting the incident to authorities.

One of Africa’s largest cybercrime enforcement operations saw law enforcement agencies from 21 countries arrest 1,462 suspects, disrupt 10,909 malicious networks and recover more than USD 105 million in illicit funds.

In 2025, illicit cryptocurrency addresses received at least $154 billion.

Stablecoins currently dominate the illicit crypto ecosystem, accounting for 84% of all illicit transaction volume in 2025.

In 2025, cryptocurrency scams received at least $14 billion on-chain, a significant increase from the $9.9 billion we first reported in 2024 , which reached $12 billion at our recalculation as of this writing – a number that was broadly in line with our projected $12.4B for the year.

This year’s data show scammers continuing to adapt and innovate, with the average scam payment increasing from $782 in 2024 to $2,764 in 2025, a growth of 253% YoY.

The cryptocurrency industry witnessed over $3.4 billion in theft from January through early December 2025, with the February compromise of Bybit alone accounting for $1.5 billion of that total.

In 2025, North Korean hackers stole at least $2.02 billion in cryptocurrency ($681 million more than 2024), representing a 51% increase year-over-year.

That’s at least 52% of incidents fueled by financial gain, while attacks focused solely on espionage made up just 4%.