NEW DELHI, INDIA — A just-released report from India’s National Crime Record Bureau says the country’s cybercrime rate increased by more than 50-percent during 2007 — and porn was among the chief culprits.“Crime in 2007” indicates 99 porn-related cybercrime cases were prosecuted during 2007, up from 69 (oddly enough) in 2006. The 2007 number represents 46-percent of the total cybercrime case volume.

Hacking in all its myriad forms came in second with 76 cases.

A total of 217 cybercrime cases were reported for the year overall, compared to 146 cases in 2006.

Only about half of the people arrested for cybercrimes were prosecuted, according to the report: 429 cybercrime arrests were made under the Indian Penal Code during the year. Of those, 63-percent of offenders were 18-30 years of age and 29.9-percent were 30-45 years old. Two offenders were younger than 18.

Legal analysts in India attributed the dramatic increase in cybercrime numbers to rapid adoption of the Internet within the country.