Krimināllikums Sections 241, 243, 244, Automated Data Processing System Offences
Krimināllikums, 241., 243. un 244. pants
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In force since 4 July 2024.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not breach an automated data processing system's protective means, or access it without permission or by using rights granted to another person; Section 241 does not reach access to a page that carries no such protective means.
- Do not modify, damage, destroy, impair, or conceal information in an automated data processing system without authorization, or knowingly enter false information into it, per Section 243.
- Do not manufacture, adapt, distribute, acquire, transport, or store a tool, device, software, password, or access code intended to influence such a system's resources, or to gain unauthorized access to it for committing a crime, per Section 244.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Section 241 (arbitrary access) carries up to two years' deprivation of liberty where substantial harm is caused, four years where committed for financial gain, and seven years where committed by an organized group, causing serious consequences, or against a state-security system. Section 243 (interference with system data) carries up to three years, rising to seven for serious consequences, a state-security system, or an organized group. Section 244 (illicit tools) carries up to two years, rising to five for an organized group or serious consequences.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
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Section 241 makes arbitrary access to the resources of an automated data processing system a crime only where it involves breaching the system's protective means, or is carried out without permission or by using rights granted to another person, and causes substantial harm; the maximum penalty rises from two to four years where the access is for financial gain, and to seven years where committed by an organized group, causing serious consequences, or directed at a system processing state-security-related information.
Because breaching a protective measure or exceeding an authorization is the trigger, crawling a public, unauthenticated page carries no exposure under this section. Section 243 separately criminalizes unauthorized modification, damage, destruction, impairment, or concealment of information in such a system, or knowingly entering false information into it, at penalties up to three years, rising to seven for an organized group or serious consequences.
Section 244 criminalizes the unauthorized manufacture, adaptation, distribution, acquisition, transport, or storage of a tool, device, software, password, or access code intended to influence such a system's resources or to gain access to it for committing a crime, at penalties up to two years, rising to five for an organized group or serious consequences.
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