electronic crime

American  

noun

Digital Technology.

1. any criminal activity involving the use of computers, as the illegal transfer of funds from one account to another or the stealing, changing, or erasing of data in an electronic data bank.

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Etymology

Origin of electronic crime

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Another mock article in a series of reports focuses on a "terrorist" who just started to pose a question on Facebook and was arrested for an "electronic crime".

From BBC

It says it’s meant to supplement the Kentucky State Police Electronic Crime Branch forensic lab in Frankfort.

From Washington Times

So it came as a shock to the bank when its insurer, Everest National Insurance Co., ultimately refused to pay out a significant portion of the bank’s claimed losses of $2.4 million, offering instead only $50,000 on the grounds that the breaches were not covered by National Bank’s computer and electronic crime insurance rider.

From Slate

Everest, upon investigating the National Bank breaches, classified both the 2016 and the 2017 incidents as a single event that was covered exclusively by the debit card rider, not the computer and electronic crime rider, and therefore eligible for a total of $50,000 in coverage, or slightly more than 2 percent of the bank’s estimated $2,433,632.82 in losses.

From Slate

The computer and electronic crime rider in National Bank’s policy insured the bank against:

From Slate