Americans worry far more about becoming the victims of cybercrime than the victims of conventional crimes, with two-thirds of U.S. adults worrying at least occasionally about computer hackers stealing their personal information (67%) and having their identity stolen (66%).
Since 2009, Americans’ anxiety about identity theft has consistently topped their fears about other crimes by at least 19 percentage points. This year’s gap between fear of cybercrime and the next-greatest level of crime worry, having a car broken into, is a wide 28 percentage points.
