‘Cybercrime a serious threat to nation’


YB Dato Lee Chee Leong, Deputy Minister of Finance will give a talk at Business Defence Forum :The Financial Crime(FC) Frontline. He will touch trend of FC, latest statistic of FC & others Commercial Crime.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians lost RM179.3mil last year to cybercrime activities, said Deputy Finance Minister II Datuk Lee Chee Leong (pic) .

Quoting the figures from the Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu), he said cybercrime was emerging as a serious economic threat.

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