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Computer crime started in the early 1970’s and has become more and more prevalent. Some are committed by outside individuals that hack into a computer system. These are the people that usually steal data and cause data loss by vandalism. The most common kind ....

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.... gain and the stakes raise in the hacker’s ego game. Only seventy-five computer crime prosecutions were reported in the United States in 1986, according to the National Center for Computer Crime Data in Santa Cruz, Calif. By 1989, that number jumped to 500 prosecutions. that year cost businesses and banks and, ultimately, consumers about $500 million. "As the use of computers has increased, so has their criminal misuse" (Parker 54:G13). Computers are used to obtain credit card numbers, which are then used to order thousands of dollars worth of whatever the hackers want. "In recent years, individual outlaws and entire "gangs" have broken into ....