{ "question": "How much money is lost to cybercrime in the US?", "answer": "Americans reported $20.877 billion in internet crime losses to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2025, across 1,008,597 complaints. That is up 26% from $16.6 billion in 2024 and about five times the $4.2 billion of 2020. People aged 60 and over lost the most: $7.748 billion.", "period": "2025", "key_numbers": [ { "value": "$20.877B", "label": "Internet crime losses reported to the FBI", "note": "FBI IC3, 2025, up 26% from 2024", "stat": "cybersecurity/us-internet-crime-losses-2025" }, { "value": "1,008,597", "label": "Complaints filed with IC3", "note": "FBI IC3, 2025, about 2,760 a day", "stat": "cybersecurity/us-internet-crime-complaints-2025" }, { "value": "$20,699", "label": "Average loss per complaint", "note": "FBI IC3, 2025", "stat": "cybersecurity/us-internet-crime-average-loss-2025" }, { "value": "$8.65B", "label": "Lost to investment fraud, the costliest type", "note": "FBI IC3, 2025", "stat": "cybersecurity/us-investment-fraud-losses-2025" }, { "value": "$7.748B", "label": "Lost by people aged 60 and over", "note": "FBI IC3, 2025, up 59% from 2024", "stat": "cybersecurity/us-internet-crime-losses-age-60-plus" }, { "value": "85%", "label": "Share of losses from cyber-enabled fraud", "note": "FBI IC3, 2025, $17.697 billion", "stat": "cybersecurity/us-cyber-enabled-fraud-share-of-losses" } ], "tables": [ { "id": "totals-2025", "title": "US internet crime reported to the FBI, 2025 totals", "columns": [ "Measure", "2025" ], "rows": [ [ "Reported losses", "$20.877 billion" ], [ "Change in losses from 2024", "+26%" ], [ "Complaints", "1,008,597" ], [ "Average loss per complaint", "$20,699" ], [ "Share of losses from cyber-enabled fraud", "85%" ], [ "Share of complaints from cyber-enabled fraud", "45%" ] ], "row_ids": [ "total-losses", "loss-change", "complaints", "average-loss", "cyber-enabled-share", "cyber-enabled-complaint-share" ], "note": "All complaints filed with IC3 in 2025, not a sample. Losses are what victims reported.", "source": "fbi-ic3" }, { "id": "by-type", "title": "Internet crime losses by type, 2025", "columns": [ "Type", "Losses 2025", "Complaints 2025", "Losses 2024" ], "rows": [ [ "Cyber-enabled fraud (group of scam types)", "$17.697 billion", "452,868", "$13.7 billion" ], [ "Complaints involving cryptocurrency", "$11.37 billion", "181,565", "$9.32 billion" ], [ "Investment fraud", "$8.65 billion", "72,984", "$6.57 billion" ], [ "Business email compromise", "$3.05 billion", "24,768", "$2.77 billion" ], [ "Complaints that mention AI", "$893 million", "22,364", "Not reported" ], [ "Ransomware", "$32.3 million", "3,611", "$12.5 million" ] ], "row_ids": [ "type-cyber-enabled", "type-crypto", "type-investment", "type-bec", "type-ai", "type-ransomware" ], "note": "Rows overlap and do not add up. Cyber-enabled fraud is a group that contains scam types such as investment fraud. Cryptocurrency and AI are tags that cut across crime types. Ransomware losses leave out downtime and recovery costs. 2024 losses are from the 2024 IC3 report; it did not report an AI figure.", "source": "fbi-ic3" }, { "id": "by-age", "title": "Internet crime complaints and losses by victim age, 2025", "columns": [ "Age group", "Complaints", "Losses" ], "rows": [ [ "Under 20", "31,254", "$67.1 million" ], [ "20-29", "112,069", "$563.1 million" ], [ "30-39", "153,293", "$1.7 billion" ], [ "40-49", "167,066", "$2.957 billion" ], [ "50-59", "124,820", "$3.7 billion" ], [ "60 and over", "201,266", "$7.748 billion" ] ], "row_ids": [ "age-under-20", "age-20-29", "age-30-39", "age-40-49", "age-50-59", "age-60-plus" ], "note": "Complaints without an age are left out. The 60 and over row is from the FBI's elder fraud section: average loss $38,500, losses up 59% and complaints up 37% from 2024.", "source": "fbi-ic3" }, { "id": "by-state", "title": "The 10 US states with the highest internet crime losses, 2025", "columns": [ "State", "Losses", "Complaints" ], "rows": [ [ "California", "$3.675 billion", "116,414" ], [ "Texas", "$1.826 billion", "97,912" ], [ "Florida", "$1.596 billion", "71,843" ], [ "New York", "$1.226 billion", "45,255" ], [ "New Jersey", "$660.4 million", "20,648" ], [ "Arizona", "$630.7 million", "28,868" ], [ "Pennsylvania", "$537.8 million", "31,154" ], [ "Illinois", "$535.3 million", "32,977" ], [ "Georgia", "$534.6 million", "25,936" ], [ "Virginia", "$476.1 million", "25,314" ] ], "row_ids": [ "state-california", "state-texas", "state-florida", "state-new-york", "state-new-jersey", "state-arizona", "state-pennsylvania", "state-illinois", "state-georgia", "state-virginia" ], "note": "Ranked by reported losses, from the state tables in the 2025 IC3 report. Totals are not adjusted for population, so the largest states lead.", "source": "fbi-ic3" }, { "id": "history", "title": "Internet crime reported to the FBI, every year since 2015", "columns": [ "Year", "Reported losses", "Complaints" ], "rows": [ [ "2015", "$1.1B", "288,012" ], [ "2016", "$1.5B", "298,728" ], [ "2017", "$1.4B", "301,580" ], [ "2018", "$2.7B", "351,937" ], [ "2019", "$3.5B", "467,361" ], [ "2020", "$4.2B", "791,790" ], [ "2021", "$6.9B", "847,376" ], [ "2022", "$10.3B", "800,944" ], [ "2023", "$12.5B", "880,418" ], [ "2024", "$16.6B", "859,532" ], [ "2025", "$20.877B", "1,008,597" ] ], "note": "2015 to 2019 from the five-year chart in the 2019 IC3 report; 2020 to 2025 losses from the 2025 report's chart; complaint counts from each year's own report.", "source": "fbi-ic3" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "Internet Crime Report (IC3 Annual Report)", "publisher": "FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center", "type": "official", "url": "https://www.ic3.gov/" }, { "name": "Consumer Sentinel Network fraud data", "publisher": "US Federal Trade Commission", "type": "official", "url": "https://www.ftc.gov/" } ], "content_changed_on": "2026-10-30", "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/cybersecurity/us-internet-crime-losses", "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/cybersecurity/us-internet-crime-losses.csv" }