Not sure what kind of crime they are referring to, but they'd be correct if they merely talk about the trafficking and monetization of personal data. This is a

Not sure what kind of crime they are referring to, but they'd be correct if they merely talk about the trafficking and monetization of personal data. This is an industry that only really became possible (and socially acceptable) in the last couple decades. Before that, the data may have been public, and isolated criminals would've no doubt used it, but in general there wasn't an entire industry dedicated to exploiting this data at large scale.