Quick Facts

Learn about state laws, statistics, and research on cybercrimes with the quick facts and links below.

Cyberstalking

Cyberstalking is the use of digital technologies to harass, threaten, or intimidate someone. It often co-occurs with in-person stalking or other forms of interpersonal violence like domestic or dating violence.

80%

of stalking victims report being stalked with technology.

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41%

of undergraduate students have experienced tech-facilitated stalking.

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Majority

of tech-facilitated stalking victims are pursued by people they know, most commonly by a well-known or casual acquaintance.

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NDII

Nonconsensual distribution of intimate images (NDII) involves someone sharing or threatening to share private sexual images or videos of another person without their consent. Also known as image-based sexual abuse, it includes the crimes of sextortion and the images can be real or deepfakes (artificially created images or videos).

1 in 7

people in the US have had intimate images shared without their consent.

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1 in 3

LGBTQ+ people have experienced image-based sexual abuse.

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$8M

of losses from sextortion reported to the FBI by Americans in just 7 months.

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Tech-Facilitated Abuse

Technology-facilitated abuse (TFA) is the use of technology to coerce or harm a romantic or intimate partner. It often occurs in the context of domestic, relationship, or intimate partner violence.

1 in 7

people who experienced technology-facilitated abuse were also physically harmed by the same abuser.

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41%

of millennials report having been a victim of an ex-partner’s digitally-fueled abuse.

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81%

of young victims of online dating abuse also experienced in-person dating abuse.

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