While elderly individuals are usually thought to be the ones who have less experience with modern technologies and are therefore more vulnerable to cyber crime online, new data based on the National Cybersecurity Alliance survey suggests otherwise.
Two thousand participants in the UK and US took part in the survey and provided information online in response to questions about their cyber security behaviours.
Generation Z, or those aged 18 to 24, and Millennials (25 to 40) were found to be less likely to report cyber crime than other generations and become victims to it.
Gen Z in particular were found to be the least likely to report cyber crime, with only 21 per cent informing authorities. Nearly one-third (32 per cent) of Millennials have reported a cyber crime.
Following up, some 43 per cent of Gen X, who are aged 41 to 56, have reported a cyber crime while the most likely to report cyber crime are Baby Boomers, aged 57 to 75, as 64 per cent of them...