Breach of Information System or Data
Section 423
(1) Any person who gains unauthorized entry to an information system by compromising or defrauding the integrity of the technical means designed to protect the information system, or overrides or infringes his user privileges is guilty of a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
(2) Any person who
a) disrupts the use of the information system unlawfully or by way of breaching his user privileges; or
b) alters or deletes, or renders inaccessible without permission, or by way of breaching his user privileges, data in the information system;
is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment not exceeding three years.
(2) The penalty shall be imprisonment between one to five years for a felony, if the acts defined in Subsection (2) involve a substantial number of information systems.
(3) The penalty shall be imprisonment between two to eight years, if the criminal offense is committed against works of public concern.
(4) In the application of this Section ‘data’ shall mean facts, information or datum stored, controlled, processed and transmitted in information systems in all forms which allows them to be processed in information systems, including those programs designed to execute certain functions by the information systems.
