Nearly half of Australian companies hit by cyber crime, PwC global survey reveals

Australian companies are being ripped off more than ever by customers, suppliers and cyber-hackers using the dark web backed by organised crime.

• By senior business correspondent Peter Ryan
• ABC

Advisory firm PwC revealed that customer fraud was now the number one economic crime in Australia, with 45 per cent of companies surveyed attacked during the past two years.

PwC’s global economic crime survey, out today, warned businesses that organised crime syndicates using the dark web were becoming more sophisticated and now used new technologies to fake documents and…

• Nearly half of…