Americans lost $9.3 billion to cryptocurrency scams in 2024, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. That figure does not include the broader category of investment fraud tied to crypto — when that is added, the total exceeds $10 billion for the year. In 2025, cryptocurrency scams received at least $14 billion on-chain globally, … Read more
In July 2024, a data broker called National Public Data confirmed a breach that exposed the personal information of hundreds of millions of people — names, addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security numbers sold on a dark web forum before the company even acknowledged the incident publicly. The breach ultimately drove National Public Data into … Read more
In February 2024, a finance employee at the global engineering firm Arup received what appeared to be a video conference call from his company’s CFO and several senior colleagues. The instructions were clear and the faces were familiar. He transferred $25 million to the accounts provided. None of the people on that call were real. … Read more
Every 4.9 seconds, someone in the United States becomes a victim of identity theft. That is not a typo. In 2024 alone, the Federal Trade Commission received over 1.1 million identity theft reports, and total fraud losses across the country exceeded $12.7 billion. Credit card fraud led the count with over 450,000 reports, but the … Read more
In 2024, Americans lost $16.6 billion to internet crime according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center — the highest total ever recorded. Investment fraud alone accounted for $6.57 billion. Business email compromise added $2.77 billion more. These are not crimes perpetrated exclusively against people who are old, naive, or technologically unfamiliar. Research consistently shows … Read more
The FBI received over 193,000 phishing complaints in 2024 — making it the single most reported cybercrime category in the United States that year. Financial losses from phishing nearly quadrupled year-on-year, rising from $18.7 million in reported losses in 2023 to over $70 million in 2024. Those numbers represent real people: a parent clicking a … Read more