Today, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a federal organization run as a partnership between the FBI and National White Collar Crime Center, released its 2009 Internet Crime Report (.pdf). Highlights include:
- IC3 received 336,655 complaints in 2009, an increase of 22% over the prior year.
- The dollar loss caused by incidents reported to IC3 increased more than 100% to $559.7 million.…