Cyber crime is not in isolation

You may find that in many cases the Hacker, Cyber Criminal or whatever you want to call them is not just acting via the web they are very often involved in 'real world' crimes too without sometimes realising it, or the information they gained is involved in other crimes i.e. ID fraud will be carried out over the web sometimes but the same ID will be sold to another and that person may well use it for buying physical items on the web which then are sold in Bars etc.

Card cloning is another problem and then the information is transferred from one magnetic strip to another. I have seen staff in organisations transfer money electronically to fund terrorism, to facilitate the purchase of properties to house people who were trafficked illegally.

Cyber crime is popular with organised crime as those who carry out the crimes do it and view it as a victimless crime so it is easy to recruit people to do it or blackmail normally honest people into comitting the cyber crime, which I have seen. A cyber criminal most of the time would not break into a house to steal anything or mug an old lady because they would have to encounter the victim, but via computer they will empty that same old ladies bank account without a second thought or facilitate the illegal purchase of a house to be used as a brothel for trafficked women. The only difference is the cyber criminal does not have to face the victim so their conscience is clear, all they did was sit behind a computer and tap a few keys.