300% rise in cybercrime cases in city since last year

As per the statistics provided by the Mumbai police, cases of hacking, phishing and Nigerian fraud have risen to 36 this year till October from the nine registered during the same period last year. While 136 cyber crime offences were registered in city in 2013 till October, this year, the number is 418.

Crime in numbers (Mumbai)
Crime                                            2014                                                     2013
Hacking/Phishing/Nigerian fraud 36                                                          09
Tampering of source code              03                                                        00
Obscene e-mails/SMS/MMS         104                                                       28
Threatening e-mail/SMS                07                                                         01
Credit card fraud                            103                                                        27
Others                                             165                                                        71

Total                                               418                                                        136


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