Italy: online sextortion cases 2023

Published by Laura Ceci, May 15, 2024
In 2023, the Italian authorities covering cyber crime and online safety investigated almost 1,500 cases of online blackmailing and sextortion. The authorities put approximately 165 people under investigation for sextortion in the last examined year, while three people were arrested.

Number of cyber blackmail and sextortion investigated in Italy in 2023

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March 2024

Region

Italy

Survey time period

2023

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crimes against the person refer to crime committed to exercit harm to another person

Supplementary notes

While the source does not define "sextortion," the phenomenon might include the crime of blackmailing users by threatening them to make public naked content involving the victims or sexual information regarding the victims previously acquired via coercive means.

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