Codigo Penal, Acceso Abusivo a un Sistema Informatico
Ley 599 de 2000, art. 269A (added by Ley 1273 de 2009)
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In force since 5 January 2009.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not access a computer system, whether or not it is protected by a security measure, without authorization or beyond what the system's owner agreed to, and do not remain in it against the will of the person entitled to exclude you.
- This article's authorization test does not turn on defeating a technical access control, so it may reach unauthorized access to a public, unauthenticated page; no confirming Colombian decision exists.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionNo
Criminal exposure note
Imprisonment of 48 to 96 months and a fine of 100 to 1,000 monthly legal minimum wages (art. 269A); the fine is expressed in monthly legal minimum wages rather than a fixed currency sum.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Fiscalia General de la Nacion
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
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Article 269A punishes whoever, without authorization or beyond what was agreed, accesses in whole or part a computer system protected or not by a security measure, or remains within it against the will of the person entitled to exclude them, with imprisonment of 48 to 96 months and a fine of 100 to 1,000 monthly legal minimum wages.
Because the article expressly covers a system whether or not it is protected by a security measure, its authorization test does not, on its plain text, require defeating a technical access control the way jurisdictions that condition the offense on infringing a security measure do.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Ley 1273 de 2009
official text inserting Titulo VII BIS into the Codigo Penal, Gestor Normativo, Departamento Administrativo de la Funcion Publica