New Delhi, Sep 30 (PTI) Cyber crimes have shown a staggering 31 per cent increase in 2023, with 86,420 cases registered in the year, compared to 65,983 cases in 2022, according to the latest report from the National Crime Records Bureau. The crime rate, which measures the number of crimes per lakh population, increased from 4.8 in 2022 to 6.2 in 2023, it said. Defrauding gullible victims was a primary motive of the cyber criminals, with 68.9 per cent of them driven by the desire to scam their victims in 59,526 such cases, followed by sexual exploitation in 4,199 cases and extortion in 3,326 being the motive for the crimes, it said.

Anger and personal revenge drove criminals to commit 2,228 cyber crimes in 2023 while political motives were behind 205 cases, it said.

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