Loi n°2010/012 du 21 décembre 2010 relative à la cybersécurité et à la cybercriminalité au Cameroun, articles 68-69 (accès frauduleux)
Loi n°2010/012 du 21 décembre 2010, art. 68-69
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In force since 21 December 2010.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 4 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not fraudulently access or remain within all or part of an electronic-communications network or information system, or transmit, damage, or cause a serious disruption or interruption of its functioning.
- Do not access, without right and in violation of a security measure, all or part of a network, information system, or terminal equipment connected to another information system, in order to obtain information or data.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Article 68 punishes fraudulent access to or continued presence within a network or information system that disrupts its functioning with five to ten years' imprisonment and a fine of 10,000,000 to 50,000,000 FCFA, doubled to a higher fine range where data is deleted, modified, or the system's operation is altered as a result. Article 69 punishes access without right and in violation of security measures, to obtain information or data, with five to ten years and a fine of 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 FCFA, the higher of the two tiers.
Penalty structure
Article 69 sets the higher of the two computer-misuse tiers: five to ten years' imprisonment and a fine of 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 FCFA (XAF) for accessing a network, system, or terminal equipment without right and in violation of security measures to obtain information or data. Article 68's tier is lower, 10,000,000 to 50,000,000 FCFA for fraudulent access or continued presence causing a disruption, doubled in currency terms where data is deleted or modified as a result, still below article 69's cap. Neither tier multiplies by a count of violations.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 4 September 2026
- Currency
- XAF
- Fixed cap
- 100,000,000
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction, Security
What this law does
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Cameroon's primary computer-misuse provisions, sitting in the cybersecurity and cybercrime law's offences-and-sanctions chapter.
Article 68 punishes fraudulently accessing or remaining within all or part of an electronic-communications network or information system by transmitting, damaging, or causing a serious disruption or interruption of the system's or network's functioning, with five to ten years' imprisonment and a fine of 10,000,000 to 50,000,000 FCFA, doubled where data is deleted or modified or the system's functioning is altered as a result.
Article 69 punishes accessing without right, and in violation of security measures, all or part of a network, information system, or terminal equipment connected to another information system, in order to obtain information or data, with five to ten years and a fine of 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 FCFA, the highest fine tier in the law's offences chapter.
Neither article carries an exemption for a search engine, indexer, or host, and neither turns its authorization test on whether the page reached was itself publicly accessible; article 69's own text keys liability to a security-measure violation, which a page requiring no authentication and using no technical access control would not appear to trigger, though no reported Cameroonian decision confirms this reading against a scraper of public pages specifically.
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