{"id":978138,"date":"2025-12-03T09:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978138"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:54:05","slug":"60-per-cent-cyberfraud-victims-in-telangana-highly-educated-yet-lose-rs-4-crore-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/60-per-cent-cyberfraud-victims-in-telangana-highly-educated-yet-lose-rs-4-crore-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"60 per cent cyberfraud victims in Telangana highly educated, yet lose Rs 4 crore a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) Director Shikha Goel on Tuesday said citizens in the state are losing nearly Rs 4 crore every day to cybercrimes, with educated individuals increasingly falling prey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen almost 60% of victims are highly educated \u2014 people from the IT profession, software, doctors and other private employees,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Goel added that cybercrimes in Telangana have reduced by 8% till September 2025, while across the country they increased by 29%. The amount lost to cyber fraud has also declined in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) Director Shikha Goel on Tuesday said citizens in the state are losing nearly Rs 4 crore every day to cybercrimes, with educated individuals increasingly falling prey. \u201cWe have seen almost 60% of victims are highly educated \u2014 people from the IT profession, software, doctors and other private employees,\u201d she said. Goel added that cybercrimes in Telangana have reduced by 8% till September 2025, while across the country they increased by 29%. The amount lost to cyber fraud has also declined in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}