Computer Crimes Computer crime started in the early 1970’s and has become more and more prevalent. Some computer crime are committed by outside individuals that hack into a computer system. These are the people that usually steal data and cause data loss by vandalism. The most common kind of computer crime is espionage committed by people who work for a company, but this is also the one that you rarely hear about. They usually enter false data that will end up making money for them. Hackers are the world’s new bread of criminals and will soon pose a major threat to the U.S. Because America has become largely a computer society