Law No. 81/2018 on Electronic Transactions and Personal Data, Illegal Access to an Information System and Related IT-System Offences
Law No. 81 Official Gazette of Lebanon, Part VI Chapter I (Crimes Related to IT Systems and Data, Arts. 110-115), promulgated 10 October 2018
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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 fraudulently access, enter, or remain in an information system, or a part of it, that you are not authorized to access.
- Do not fraudulently damage or hinder the operation of an information system, or fraudulently enter, delete, or modify digital data hosted by one.
- Do not intentionally hinder, disturb, or disrupt access to a service, hardware, software, or data source through the information network.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control has not itself been held to violate this chapter.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Imprisonment from three months to two years and/or a fine of one to twenty million Lebanese pounds for illegal access (art. 110), rising to six months to three years and two to forty million pounds where the access alters data or software or jeopardizes the system; imprisonment from six months to three years and/or a fine of three million to two hundred million pounds for compromising system or data integrity (arts. 111-112); imprisonment from three months to two years and/or a fine of two to thirty million pounds for hindering access to a service (art. 113).
What this law does
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Article 110 penalizes fraudulently accessing, entering, or staying in an information system, or a part of it, with imprisonment from three months to two years and a fine of one to twenty million Lebanese pounds, rising to six months to three years and two to forty million pounds where the access cancels, reproduces, or amends digital data or software, or jeopardizes the system's operation.
Article 111 penalizes fraudulently damaging or hindering an information system's operation; Article 112 penalizes fraudulently entering, deleting, or modifying digital data hosted by a system; Article 113 penalizes intentionally hindering, disturbing, or disrupting access to a service, hardware, software, or data source through the information network; Article 114 penalizes importing, producing, or distributing hardware, software, or data intended to commit any of these offenses; and Article 115 extends the same penalties to an attempt.
Because each offense turns on fraudulent, unauthorized interference with a system, a person who reads a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control falls outside a plain reading of the chapter. The whole statute took effect three months after its publication in the Official Gazette, but no commencement date distinct from its 2018 enactment year has been located.
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official English translation of the Official Gazette text, hosted by SMEX