London: A total of 57 people were arrested across the Britain this week in a nationwide operation against cyber crime, the British National Crime Agency (NCA) has said.

The NCA on Friday said the arrests took place in 25 separate operations from March 2 to 6, and the crimes included networking intrusion and data theft from multinational companies and government agencies, cyber-enabled fraud, and malicious software and virus development, among others, Xinhua reported.