An Investigative Report on Cyber Crime Trends and Impact in the UK

This report investigates the issue of cyber crime in the UK, highlighting its increasing prevalence and impact. It includes interviews with the Chief of the NCCU and an anonymous industry expert, Mr. X, to provide insights into the causes and potential solutions. The report presents data and images illustrating the rise in cyber attacks and fraud, emphasizing the significant financial losses and personal risks involved. The author expresses their opinion as a journalist, emphasizing the importance of raising awareness about cyber crime through informative articles. The report concludes by suggesting three aspects for a follow-up program, focusing on employee training, repeated interviews with experts, and surveys to assess the effectiveness of mitigation efforts. References to books, journals, and online articles are provided to support the analysis and findings.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Feature of a programme...............................................................................................................2
Summary of the issue...................................................................................................................2
Background information..............................................................................................................2
Data images and evidence...........................................................................................................3
Your opinion................................................................................................................................4
3 aspects follow up programme contain......................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Feature of a programme
This programme is a part of series in order to investigate the news report looking at an
issue of cyber crime in UK. Initially the part of a project is based upon how the problem
becomes huge issue in an entire world and for that background information will be provided
which determine how the issue increases.
In order to prove the facts, interview had been conducted with two key people. Such that
first interview will be conducted with the Chief of NCCU who present their views pertaining to
increasing rate of cyber crime.
Another interview had been conducted by Mr. X who not want to disclose owns identity
but he work with the top company who keep working to reduce the chances of cyber crime.
Through this interview, it has been analysed that the reason of increasing the cyber crime.
Interview with a suggested expert
The Chief of NCCU stated that there is a need to solve the issues and if the issue will be
raises in same pace then it will might hacked the personal life of individual as well.
Mr X stated that there will be a dangerous condition in UK, if organization will not
making any decision to solve the issue. The rate of increasing cyber crime always affected or
hacked the life of person and misuses the same with the help of third party.
Summary of the issue
Background information
UK is considered as a hub of IT sector and that is why, the rate of cyber crime increases.
The data reflected that UK reported losses of £1.3 billion to fraud and study reflected that it
might be increases over the next three years as well (UK loses £1.3 bn to fraud, 2021).
Therefore, it has been analysed that a survey of ONS Crime Survey for England and Wales
showed that the figures of committing crime was increased by 24% from 2020 in 2021.
Therefore, there will be around 1.5 million organization who fell victim due to cybercrime and
this also affect the personal lives of people because their information has leaked by third party.

Therefore, it can be stated that the issue is considered as a key problem for the people
because they do not share their information as it can be hacked by any time at anywhere. This
might affect the business sales and profit as well because majority of the companies are working
at international level. However, the reality of the situation might be different because survey or
any documents does not show the clear figures. Majority of the crime are committed by
individual and small groups and they must be professionals who have enough knowledge and
that is why, large organization were trapped easily. There is no proper solution identified and
that is why, the rate of such cyber crime increases year by year.
Data images and evidence
Figure 1: Beaming and Opinum, January 2020
The above diagram shows that the number of cyber attacks increases in the past five
years and all type of organization are doing better to address the same (UK Cybercrime rate has
doubled in past 5 year, 2020). The study also found that Malware is the best way through which
the attack can be minimised. However, most of the business uses password protected items that
helps to tackle the threat from last many years.

Figure 2: Fraud and computer misuse crimes rise by more than a third
The reason behind selecting this image is such that there were 1.7 million computer
misuse offence and many of them do not have any authorized access to use the information.
Thus, Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Scam Alerts in June 2021 also reported that there
were 125% increase in hacking in 2021 (Fraud and computer misuse crimes rise by more than a
third, 2021). Thus, the increasing in number of cases clearly reflected that there is a need to solve
the issue because it might lead to affect the lie of people as well.
Your opinion
The research and data reflected that cybre crime is highly affected the business and this
also result to bear a huge loss. In my opinion, as a Journalist, I always publish the article related
to the same and try to catch the eyes of people towards this issue. In my article, I publish the
reasons of causing cyber crime so that people will be aware about the same and this helps me to
get an attention of people towards the issue (Lallie and et.al., 2021). With the changing era, most
of the people and business are entire depend upon the advance technology and save their data in
Laptop and computer without taking any precautions. This in turn increases the chances of cyber
crime in different areas.
Therefore, as a Journalist, I would publish the article in an effective manner so that it will
automatically attract the reader so that they will be aware with such issue and take precautionary
methods as well. The fact data will be collected and presented in front of people so that they
understand the reality and this in turn help me to aware them about the issue.
3 aspects follow up programme contain
There is a need to focus upon the issue that helps to minimize the rate of cyber crime.
This in turn assists to generate the better outcome. Also, employees of the company should also

be attentive and learn how to protect the personal information to get leaked in market so that it
do not cause any negative impact.
By repeating the interview with Mr. X assist to determine whether there are some
improvement identified within a company regarding the cyber crime. Through the survey with
people, it has identified whether the issue is mitigated or not. Also, there is a need to focus upon
the issue to manage the increasing rate (Buil-Gil and et.al., 2021).
With the help of conducting interview with any government officer who have enough
knowledge regarding the solution of cyber crime will be assist to determine ways through which
Cyber crime can be minimized. This in turn causes positive impact over business performance
and human life.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Buil-Gil, D. and et.al., 2021. Cybercrime and shifts in opportunities during COVID-19: a
preliminary analysis in the UK. European Societies. 23(sup1). pp.S47-S59.
Lallie, H. S. and et.al., 2021. Cyber security in the age of covid-19: A timeline and analysis of
cyber-crime and cyber-attacks during the pandemic. Computers & Security. 105.
p.102248.
Online
Fraud and computer misuse crimes rise by more than a third. 2021. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.todaysconveyancer.co.uk/main-news/fraud-and-computer-misuse-crimes-
rise-by-more-than-a-third/#:~:text=The%20survey%20also%20revealed%20that,the
%20year%20ending%20March%202019.>.
UK Cybercrime rate has doubled in past 5 year. 2020. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/uk-cyber-crime-rate-has-doubled-in-the-past-five-
years>.
UK loses £1.3 bn to fraud. 2021. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252505825/UK-loses-13bn-to-fraud-and-
cyber-crime-so-far-this-year>.