Report: One in two Indian adults experienced cybercrime in last 12 months

April 20, 2021

The NortonLifeLock recently released a report titled “2021 Norton cyber–Safety Insights Report”.

59% of Indians, that is, more than one in two adults in the country have experienced cyber crime in the last twelve months.
The report says that seven in ten Indian adults believe that remote work atmosphere created by COVID-19 has made it easier for the hackers and cybercriminals.
Around 52% of the adults in India do not know how to protect themselves from cybercrime.
27 million Indian adults experienced identity thefts.
90% of the consumers using online transactions are taking proactive steps to safeguard their data.
42% believe that it is impossible to protect their privacy.
66% are worried that they are more vulnerable to cybercrimes due to COVID-19 and how it is making the world to become more reliable on digital platforms.
52% of cybercrime victims turned to their friends for help and 47% contacted the company for resolving the issues.
Of the total cybercrimes that occurred in India, 14% occurred in 2020.
More than twenty-seven million adults have faced identity thefts in 2020-21.

Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) was launched to handle issues related to cybercrimes in the country.
Online Cybercrime reporting portal was launched to report complaints related to child sexual abuse material or child pornography.
Cyber Swachhta Kendra was established. These are Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centres. It provides detection of malicious programmes and free tools to remove such programmes.
National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre was launched to protect critical information infrastructure.