Americans are more afraid of being hacked than afraid of being killed

According to the Gallup News, Americans are more worried about cybercrime than normal criminals such as robbery, car theft or sexual harassment.

Most worrisome is the hacked financial information and personal information when 67% of respondents said they were very worried. For common types of crimes, people are most concerned when cars are stolen or hacked with a ratio of 38%. Meanwhile, very few people worry about being killed, only 6%.

The Internet has completely changed the way we communicate and it's hard to imagine life without a network. But at the same time it also brings a new type of crime that we call 'cybercrime', not just for Americans but for the whole world.

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Cybercrime seems to be the most frightening type of crime

In 2013, there were more than 3 billion Yahoo accounts hacked , including phone number, date of birth, and password. In 2017, the rating agency trusted Equifax also suffered from serious data leaks , including sensitive information such as name, address, date of birth, even driver's license, card number Credit of 143 million Americans.

It is easy to understand why cybercriminals deserve attention. That's because losing information such as credit cards has more important effects than losing a lot of cars.

Not to mention, cybercrime is more common than other types of crimes. Surprisingly, Gallup reports, 25% of Americans - 1 in every 4 people - say their personal information has been stolen by hackers in the past 12 months.

Surprisingly, for Americans, forms of crime such as 'murdered' or 'victimized by terrorism' are not concerned with losing a car because only 18% worry about the type of crime this.