Let's say you are interested in buying someone's identity. Not just someone's credit card, but their entire identity.
How much do you think that costs?

Passwords for individual online banking accounts sell on the dark web for an average of $160.15.

If that seems pricey, there's plenty of other personal information available for much less.

Getting in the front door of a person's Airbnb account will cost hackers about $7.87. Uber credentials are a bargain at $7. And if cybercriminals get hungry, they can get a GrubHub food delivery login for about $9.16.
...The average person has at least a dozen online accounts, ranging from email and Facebook to online shopping, food delivery and banking. Add up all of those accounts and the typical internet user's identity is worth about $1,200 to hackers, according to Migliano's calculations.

OK. Let's say that you are more ambitious.
You are willing to take bigger risks for a bigger payoff.
What would that cost?

The researchers also examined the costs of cyber crime services across the dark web and found that compromising a site and obtaining full control over a web application costs as little as $150, for example.

However, a targeted attack on an organisation, depending on difficulty, can cost more than $4,500, while the most expensive malware was for targeting banks’ automatic teller machines through ATM logic attacks, with prices starting at $1,500.

The leading type of malware available was cryptocurrency miners (20% of the total), followed by hacking utilities (19%), botnet malware (14%), remote access Trojans (RATs) (12%), and ransomware (12%).

The majority of malware demand (55%) was for creation and distribution, the researchers found.

While current demand for malware creation exceeds the supply by three times, the demand for malware distribution is twice the supply, the researchers found.

Globally cybercrime cost $600 billion last year — about 0.8 percent of global GDP.
Globally, cybercrime was the 2nd most reported crime in 2016.

A University of Maryland study found that hackers are attacking computers and networks at a “near-constant rate”, with an average of one attack every 39 seconds. (Source: University of Maryland)
Most network intrusions—63 percent—are the result of compromised user passwords and usernames.
18 million new malware samples were captured in In Q3 2016.
The U.S. had the most data breaches of any other country, by a large margin. There were 1013 data breaches in the U.S. in 2016. By comparison, second place U.K. had just 38 breaches.
Mobile platforms are one of the fastest-growing targets for cyber criminals. Symantec identified 18.4 million malware detections in 2016, a 105 percent increase of 2015.
Most cybercrime is now mobile. Over 60% of online fraud is accomplished through mobile platforms. Additionally, 80 percent of mobile fraud is accomplished through mobile apps instead of mobile web browsers.

What I think is most interesting is how cyber crime is so ubiquitous and such a huge, growing problem, but it gets so little media coverage.
I attribute this to the fact that there is no commercial profit in people being aware of the dangers.