Criminal Code, unauthorized access to computer information
Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, No. 127 (28 October 2021), Chapter 40, Art. 319
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In force.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not gain unauthorized access to another person's protected computer information, electronic documents, information system, or telecommunications network, including by defeating an access control, where doing so destroys, blocks, or modifies data or disrupts a processing device.
- A more serious tier applies where the access is committed by a group, causes major damage, reaches critical information infrastructure, or is undertaken to intentionally destroy, alter, or disable the system.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control has not itself been held to violate this article.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionNo
Criminal exposure note
Base tier (Art. 319(1)): community service of 40 to 100 hours, deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to three years, correctional labor of two months to one year, or a fine of 200 to 500 calculated units. Aggravated tiers (Art. 319(2), (3), (4), covering group commission, major damage, critical infrastructure, or intentional destruction/disabling): a fine of 500 to 1000 calculated units or imprisonment of up to five years, with or without deprivation of the right to hold certain positions for up to two years. The statute states these amounts in calculated units rather than a fixed currency sum; no conversion to Kyrgyz som is stated in the source.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
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Art. 319(1), read in full, prohibits unauthorized access to someone else's protected computer information, electronic documents, an information system, or a telecommunications network, where the access results in destruction, blocking, or modification of information, or in disruption of processing devices, causing significant harm intentionally or through negligence; the base tier is community service, deprivation of the right to hold certain positions, correctional labor, or a fine of 200 to 500 calculated units.
Art. 319(2) raises the penalty to a fine of 500 to 1000 calculated units or imprisonment of up to five years where the act is committed by a group by prior agreement, causes major damage through negligence, or reaches critical information infrastructure.
Art. 319(3) sets the same 500-to-1000-unit or five-year tier for the same base conduct committed with intent to destroy, alter, block, or render unusable the information or to disable the system, and Art. 319(4) applies that tier's aggravating circumstances to the intentional form as well.
The same Chapter 40 separately criminalizes creating malicious software (Art. 320), cyber-sabotage (Art. 321), and unsolicited mass distribution of electronic messages that disrupts a system's operation (Art. 322), each read at the same source.
Because Art. 319's trigger is unauthorized access resulting in one of the listed harms, a scraper reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control, and without destroying, blocking, or modifying the page's information, falls outside a plain reading of the provision.
The Code's own text, as archived, carries no commencement clause; it was enacted by a separate introducing law (Law of the Kyrgyz Republic of 28 October 2021 No. 126) whose commencement date is not confirmed in the primary text, so the Code's own in-force status rests on its own extensive amendment history running from January 2022 through January 2024.
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Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic
No. 127 of 28 October 2021, official English translation hosted by legislationline.org (OSCE ODIHR legislative database), cited to an Internet Archive capture of that page