Why we cannot measure the real cost of cybercrime?

At the end of 2005, a rather contradictive statement was made, namely, that the costs of cybercrime have surpassed those of drug smuggling? And while I feel it has been made in order to highlight the threatsposed by today's cyber insecurities, I find it a bit of an unrealistic one.Mainly because of :- the lack of centralized database and approach to keep track of, and measure the costs of cyber