According to this report the US lost $105 billion to cybercrime in 2005.

That's a staggering amount, in any currency, but I can't help but think about how much that money could have saved in terms of providing funding for others projects, or how much could have been pumped into pension funds (mostly in a deficit here in the UK), or just placed into our consumer pockets. Afterall, the money lost comes from somewhere and one way or another that money comes from individual pockets in terms of the increase in costs of goods and services for the suppliers, services and insurance companies that are invovled in the process.