Number of police-reported cybercrimes in Canada 2015-2023

The source adds the following information: 'A criminal incident may be comprised of multiple violations of the law. For the analysis of cyber-related violations, one distinct violation within the incident was identified as the 'cybercrime violation'. The cybercrime violation represents the specific criminal violation within an incident in which a computer or the internet was the target of the crime, or the instrument used to commit the crime. For the majority of incidents, the cybercrime violation and the most serious violation were the same.
Excluded from this table are the small number of police services that do not report to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR) 2.' Adapted from Statistics Canada, Statistics Canada, 2014 to 2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.