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Australian crime : facts and figures 2003
Fraud and cybercrime
Cost of computer crime, 2002
* Theft/breach of proprietary or confidential information
** Unauthorised access to privileged information by insider
*** Degradation of network performance associated with heavy scanning
Source
- Australian Computer Emergency Response Team 2002, Australian computer crime and security survey 2002, AusCERT, Brisbane. <http://www.auscert.org.au/crimesurvey>
What this chart shows
- The type of computer crime that generated the highest cost in 2002 was financial fraud, with a total cost of $3.5 million. The highest cost for a single incident of financial fraud was $1.4 million.
- These costs are estimates based on survey responses from 88 organisations only, so underestimate the true cost of computer crime in Australia.