Where Cybercrime Comes From, Or Rather, Where It Doesn't Come From You may have wondered where or what the first cybercrime case was and the answers may not surprise you. The first cases of cybercrime were committed before the internet came into existence and involved ... data theft. It is perfectly logical. Computers, computer networks and the Internet were created for the storage and transfer of government and corporate information, information that is very valuable to the right people. The creation of digitised methods may have pushed humanity into the 21st century, but it did the same with criminals. They want what we have and the harder we make it for them to find, retrieve and use, the more they will want to take it. If it's not for personal gain, then it's only because they can.