Be careful, lest you also become a victim! In 1 year, India lost 22842 crores to cyber criminals.

Cyber Crime Cases: With the shocking revelations in the report of Dataleads, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C) has also estimated a loss of Rs 1.2 lakh crore this year.

Cyber Crime Cases: Incidents of cybercrime are continuously increasing in India. A recent report by Delhi-based media and tech company Dataleads has made a shocking revelation. It has been said that in the year 2024, India suffered a loss of Rs 22,842 crore due to cyber frauds.

In its report titled 'Contours of Cybercrime: Persistent and Emerging Risk of Online Financial Frauds and Deepfakes in India', DataLeads has said that the loss in the year 2024 is almost three times more than the Rs 7,465 crore in 2023 and about 10 times more than the Rs 2,306 crore in 2022.

This much loss is estimated this year

The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C) set up by the Ministry of Home Affairs estimates that Indians will suffer a loss of Rs 1.2 lakh crore this year. The number of cyber crime complaints has also jumped in recent times. In 2024 alone, about two million complaints were registered, which was about 15.6 lakh last year and it is ten times more than the complaints registered in 2019.

According to the report of NDTV, the increasing complaints and losses related to cyber crime show that India's digital criminals are becoming more clever and smarter and their number is increasing in this country of about 290 lakh unemployed people.

Bank related frauds are also happening a lot

During this period, there has been a tremendous jump in the cases of bank related fraud. According to the report of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in the first six months of the year 2025-26, the number of such cases has increased almost eight times as compared to last year and the amount of loss during this period has also increased from Rs 2,623 crore to Rs 21,367 crore. Of these, 60 percent of fraud cases are related to private sector banks, but the maximum loss of Rs 25,667 crore has been suffered by the customers of the government bank.