Centre for Crime Policy and Research

Transnational organised crime is estimated to generate up to US$870 billion each year globally, with two-thirds of Australia’s nationally significant targets linked to at least one other country.

Illicit drugs account for around half of this total, with significant funds also derived from trafficking in people, firearms, natural resources & wildlife, people smuggling, counterfeit goods and cybercrime.

Cybercrimes are growing with the global cybersecurity market skyrocketing to over $120 billion.

More than 600,000 Facebook accounts are compromised every day.

Fifteen per cent of social network users have reported that their profiles have been hacked by 'pretenders'.

In 2015 the Australian Crime Commission, Australia’s lead agency for combating nationally significant organised crime, assessed the overall risk to Australia to be high and conservatively estimated the annual cost in this country to be $15 billion. This cost represents a range of harms and losses to governments, businesses and individuals in Australia—some obvious, such as public violence—some less so, such as market distortion.

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