German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere is due to release the new statistics, part of the government's annual crime report, on Monday, according to Die Welt newspaper.
In addition to cyber crime, German police also registered 253,290 cases of crimes carried out with the help of the internet, an increase of 3.6 percent from 2015, the newspaper reported. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Chris Reese)German cyber crime rose 80 percent in 2016: report
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