London, October 30 : Britain had witnessed soaring cyber crime rates in 2007, reveals an online identity firm.
The report has shown that cyber crime in the UK rose by more than 9 percent in 2007.
According to Tom Ilube, chief executive, ‘Garlick’, majority of the crimes committed online were in relation to fraud and abusive or threatening emails leaving more than two million people prone to online harassment.
Though online financial fraud took a huge leap in 2007 with a 20 per cent rise, cases of online identity theft had gone down by 8 per cent followed by online sexual offences that fell by 2 per cent.