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OVER the past few years, crime statistics in England and Wales have risen dramatically, following decades of steady decline. According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), .
It’s not that there has been a recent crime spree – this isn’t about a rise in acid attacks or knife crime. Rather, it was only in 2016 that the ONS began estimating cybercrime figures, exposing how criminal operations are increasingly moving online. After all, why rob a bank when you could hack someone’s account or steal their bitcoins?
The ONS says there were 6.2 million crimes…
