Hacked and ashamed? C'mon, Brits – report that cybercrime

Sitting on offence

> only a third of those who'd been a victim (32 per cent) actually reported the offence.

A third! That sounds incredibly high.

So far today I've received 2 cold calls and half a dozen attempted frauds to various email addresses. The cold-calls were not from any company I had given my details to and may (or may not) have obtained them legally. The emails that are variants on "here's your invoice for ... " are simply attempts at coning me into sending them money.

To whom should I report all this attempted or suspected criminal behaviour? And are there enough hours in the day to actually do so? More importantly, should I expect anyone to actually do anything (apart from add "1" to the number of variously reported activities) to prevent, reduce or deter these attempts and punish the perpetrators.

My feeling is that attempted cyber-crime has zero status. Even actual fraud is dealt with in a cursory manner and if it was to be treated in the same way as minor infractions in other areas of the law, we'd need every able-bodied person the country recruited into the police force to even start scratching the surface.

What's the point of reporting it

Go through all the hassle just to be told... "well we can't do anything about it, so don't let it happen again" Which is kinda the attitude you would take anyway. Only now you're out several hours of form filling and getting it stamped in triplicate as well.

Just an exercise in victim blaming.

It would be easier if they used their global spy grid to actually track criminals instead of rigging the stock market.

Spending £860million on cyber-baloney

I'd like an itemised invoice please.

It's not shame on why it's not reported.

You spend hours reporting it or at least trying to report it and get blown off by the police, etc. Why go through the hassle? Doesn't matter which country you're in, the result is same. I'm in the States and reporting it does nothing.

Over the last year I've had half a dozen websites that I host hacked. Typically they install a page that collects login details. One of them actually set up a subdomain to go with it, while another one just redirected search engines to other sites to build up their rankings. None of them stored the details on my site - in one or two cases I was able to send details of the attack to the company whose pages were being spoofed, but is there anywhere that I can report this sort of thing to?