Cybercrime said to cost US $140 billion, radically less than previous estimates

In 2009, McAfee published a study estimating that cybercrime cost the US economy as much as $1 trillion a year. Since then, the $1 trillion annual figure has been cited by various politicians and the Obama Administration as a reason to step up the nation's online defenses and its pursit of hackers and other web criminals.

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