Statistics on Cyber Crime (IndiaSpend)
Cyber
Crime Case Reports: As many as 11,592 cases of cyber crime were
reported across India in 2015, nearly 26
times more than a decade ago in 2006 when 453 cases were reported,
according to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau.
Persons
arrested for allegedly committing cyber crime
increased 14 times over the past decade, indicating how cyber crimes represent
an increasing problem as India moves towards greater digitisation.
Over
36,000 cases were registered between 2006 and 2015 while 24,140 persons were
arrested during this period.
Notable
Incident: The Indian National Congress raised the issue of digital
security after its mail server and many email and Twitter accounts–including
the party’s and its vice president Rahul Gandhi’s official Twitter
accounts–were hacked.
Laws and
Statute: Of the 11,592 cases of cyber crime
reported in 2015, 8,045 were filed under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 3,422 under the Indian
Penal Code (IPC) and 125
under Special and Local Laws
(SLL).
Reasons
stated for Cyber Crime: Greed/financial gain were the biggest motives for cyber
crimes, accounting for around a third of all cases reported in 2015 with 3,855
cases. “Other” motives
accounted for the second highest number of cyber crimes at 3,008, followed by fraud/illegal gain (1,119),
insult to modesty of women
(606), sexual exploitation
(588) and causing disrepute
(387).
Kinds of
Cyber Crimes: In 2015, as many as
26,244 cases of website defacement,
9,830 cases of virus/malicious code
and 3,673 cases of network
scanning/probing were reported to or tracked by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT-In) of the Department of Information Technology.
Hack of
government websites: As many as 560 government websites hosted
under gov.in and nic.in domains were hacked by various groups from 2012 to January,
2015, according to data tabled in the Lok Sabha.
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