Wetboek van Strafrecht, Hacking and Denial of Access (arts. 187b-187c)
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In force.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not gain access to a computer system, or part of one, without authorization; access counts as unauthorized if it was obtained by breaking through security, a technical intervention, false signals or a false key, or by assuming a false identity.
- If access to a system was unlawfully obtained, do not go on to copy, intercept, or record the data it holds, use its processing capacity for your own or another's benefit, or pivot through it to a third party's system.
- Do not hinder another person's access to or use of a computer system by flooding it with data.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control has not itself been shown to meet this law's unlawful-access test.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionNo
Criminal exposure note
Imprisonment of up to one year and/or a third-category fine (up to SRD 25,000) for basic unauthorized access (art. 187b(1)); imprisonment of up to four years and/or a fourth-category fine (up to SRD 50,000) for aggravated hacking that goes on to copy, intercept, or record the accessed data, or to pivot to a third party's system (art. 187b(2)-(3)); imprisonment of up to one year and/or a fourth-category fine for intentionally and unlawfully hindering access to or use of an automated work (art. 187c).
Penalty structure
Article 187b(1)'s cap for basic unauthorized access (hacking). Aggravated hacking under article 187b(2)-(3), and hindering access under article 187c, carry a fourth-category fine of up to SRD 50,000 instead, with imprisonment of up to one year for basic hacking and for hindering access, and up to four years for aggravated hacking.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 5 September 2026
- Currency
- SRD
- Fixed cap
- 25,000
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
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Article 187b(1) punishes intentionally and unlawfully gaining access to an automated work, or part of one, as hacking, with imprisonment of up to one year and a third-category fine (up to SRD 25,000), or either penalty; access is deemed unlawful specifically where it was obtained by breaking through a security measure, a technical intervention, false signals or a false key, or by assuming a false identity.
Article 187b(2)-(3) raises the penalty to up to four years and a fourth-category fine (up to SRD 50,000) where the offender, having gained unlawful access, then takes over, taps or records the data held on the system, uses its processing capacity for unlawful gain, or pivots through it to a third party's system.
Article 187c separately punishes, with up to one year and a fourth-category fine, intentionally and unlawfully hindering another person's access to or use of an automated work by offering or sending data to it. Because unlawfulness under article 187b turns on defeating a security measure, a technical intervention, or a false signal, key or identity, reading a public, unauthenticated page without any such circumvention falls outside a plain reading of the offence.
The law provides that it takes effect the day after its promulgation in the Staatsblad. De Nationale Assemblee's own legislative record lists this law under Staatsblad 2015 no. 44 and the date 13 April 2015.
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Read the law
Official consolidated text of the Wetboek van Strafrecht as revised by the law of 30 March 2015
De Nationale Assemblee (Suriname's National Assembly)