Cybercrime is the second form of the most common criminal acts in Britain

Statistics of the most common criminal offenses in Britain reveal an interesting fact: Cybercrime takes second place after the fraud.

According to a survey conducted by the British Office for National Statistics which was closed in June the 2015 revealed approximately 2.5 million computer incidents where 400,000 thousand are closely related to methods of hacking and unauthorized access to personal information.

The only category of crime is higher levels of fraud over 5 million incidents. In 78% of cases this crime resulted in huge financial losses.

Stephen Wares, a leader of the department of computer security at an insurance company in Britain said that currently Cyber crime in Britain is culminates to dangerous incidents. A particular case is hacking British Ministry of Defense by a group of hackers in 2012. Ten.

Wares believes the stalemate in the neutralization of Cyber crime cases in Britain came as a result of the lack of a strong legal basis. Act on Data Protection in Britain founded in 1998 contains a clause which mention cybercrime.