Penal Code Article 370C, Illegal Access to an Information System
Poinikos Kodikas, art. 370C, as replaced by Law 4411/2016, art. 2 para. 6 (FEK A' 142/3.8.2016)
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In force since 3 August 2016.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not access all or part of an information system, or data transmitted over a telecommunications system, by violating a prohibition or a security measure the lawful holder has put in place.
- Crawling a public, unauthenticated page that carries neither a stated prohibition nor a technical access control has not itself been held to violate this article.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Paragraph 1: imprisonment of up to six months and a fine of 290 to 5,900 euro for without-right copying or use of a computer program. Paragraph 2: imprisonment for without-right access to all or part of an information system or to data transmitted by telecommunications systems, violating a prohibition or a security measure of the lawful holder; if the act concerns Greece's international relations or state security, it is punished under article 148 instead. Paragraph 3 punishes the same paragraph-2 act only where an offender in the lawful holder's service was expressly prohibited from it by internal regulation or a written decision of the holder or a competent employee.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
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Article 370C of the Penal Code, titled Illegal Access to an Information System, punishes without-right copying or use of computer programs with up to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 290 to 5,900 euro (paragraph 1), and separately punishes without-right access to all or part of an information system, or to data transmitted by telecommunications systems, where the actor violates a prohibition or a security measure the lawful holder has put in place, with imprisonment (paragraph 2).
A neighbouring provision, Article 370D, is a separate offence: unauthorised technical interception of non-public data transmissions or electromagnetic emissions to, from or within an information system, punished with incarceration of up to ten years.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Official codified Penal Code text published by the Hellenic Ministry of Justice