Poll: 11% Victimized by Cybercrime

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While crime on the streets may be down, a Gallup poll finds increasing numbers of Americans saying they’ve been victims of crime in cyberspace.

In a report released last week, based on polling fielded in October, 11 percent of respondents said they or someone else in their household “was the victim of a computer or Internet-based crime, such as fraud or computer hacking, while using your home computer” during the past 12 months. That’s up from 7 percent saying the same in 2009 and from 8 percent in five years of such polls from 2004 through 2008.

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