The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019—and reported losses exceeding $4.2.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) divides cybercrime into three categories: crimes in which the computing device is the target -- for example, to gain network access; crimes in which the computer is used as a weapon -- for example, to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack; and