FBI: Arkansas had 1,853 reports of cybercrime in 2016

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The FBI says there were nearly 1,900 instances of
internet crime in Arkansas for 2016, from nonpayment scams to cyberattacks on
state agencies.The FBI says Arkansas’ attacks are a small percentage of the nearly 300,000
cyberattacks tracked nationwide in 2016. But the FBI warns that the state is
seeing more complex attacks, including cyberattacks from overseas.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that those complex attacks show a
global trend in evolving techniques of infiltrating government, business and
personal computer systems.

The most common internet crimes reported in 2016 were nonpayment or
non-delivery scams, when a product or service isn’t compensated or never
received.

According to the FBI, more than $1.3 billion was lost in 2016 through
cyberattacks in the U.S., which is the highest total since 2000.

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