This paper provides a unique insight into the impact of computer misuse crime, such as hacking, denial of service attacks, ransomware and computer viruses/malware on individual and small and medium sized enterprises/organisation (SME/O) victims in the UK. Based upon in depth interviews with 52 (38 individual and 14 SME/O) victims it shows that these victims experience many of the impacts associated with other volume crimes. Building upon research on comparable offences the paper proposes eight categories of impact, which include:little or no impact, financial, disruption, psychological (which was broken down further), feelings of violation, loss of digital possessions, health and secondary impacts. The research highlights that although for some the impact is very minor, many experience much more extensive impacts, even when there is no financial loss and for some the impact was so severe it was compared to rape.

本文对计算机滥用犯罪的影响提供了独特的见解，例如黑客攻击、拒绝服务攻击、勒索软件和计算机病毒/恶意软件对英国个人和中小型企业/组织 (SME/O) 受害者的影响。根据对 52 名（38 名个人和 14 名 SME/O）受害者的深入访谈，表明这些受害者经历了与其他大规模犯罪相关的许多影响。基于对类似罪行的研究，该论文提出了八类影响，包括：影响很小或没有影响、财务影响、破坏性影响、心理影响（进一步细分）、侵犯感、数字财产丢失、健康和次要影响。研究强调，虽然对某些人来说影响很小，但许多人经历了更广泛的影响，