Brottsbalken 4 kap. 9 c §, Unauthorized Computer Access (Dataintrång)
Brottsbalk (1962:700) 4 kap. 9 c §
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In force 46 days, effective 1 August 2026.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not unlawfully gain access to, alter, delete, block, or register information intended for automated processing in Sweden, or seriously disturb or hinder the use of such information by another similar unlawful means.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
A fine or imprisonment of up to two years for the ordinary offence; imprisonment of one to eight years for a gross offence.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Swedish Police Authority (Polismyndigheten) investigates and the Swedish Prosecution Authority (Åklagarmyndigheten) prosecutes offences under the Criminal Code; there is no specialized regulator for this offence.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Section 9 c of chapter 4 of the Criminal Code makes it an offence for a person to unlawfully gain access to information intended for automated processing, or to unlawfully alter, delete, block, or enter such information into a register, or to unlawfully and seriously disturb or hinder the use of such information by another similar means.
The ordinary offence carries a fine or imprisonment of up to two years; a gross offence carries imprisonment of one to eight years, with gravity assessed by whether the act caused serious damage, concerned a large volume of information, or was otherwise of a particularly dangerous nature.
The provision's trigger is unlawful access, not the circumvention of a security measure, so it reaches a broader range of conduct than a statute conditioned on defeating an access control, and its reach to a scraper reading a public, unauthenticated page has not been tested by a reported Swedish decision. Section 9 c's current wording took effect on 1 August 2026 under Lag (2026:1318), the most recent of several amendments since the offence was first added to the Criminal Code.
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