Inter-American Security Observatory

Unlawful interference with a computer system or computer data (ICCS 09032)

Unlawful acts hindering the functioning of a computer system, as well as acts involving damage, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data without authorization or justification.
INCLUSIONS: Damaging, deletion, alteration, suppression of computer data; hindering the functioning of a computer system; denial of service attack; damage, deletion, alteration, suppression of computer data; deleting computer system files without authorization; computer system damage.
EXCLUSIONS: Damaging property that is not computer data (0504); possession, distribution or creation of child pornography with a computer system (030221); computer software theft or piracy (0503); possession, distribution or creation of pornography with a computer system (08022); fraud and theft with a computer system (0701) or (0502)
COMPUTER DATA means any representation of facts, information, concepts, in a machine-readable form suitable for processing by a computer/information system
COMPUTER/INFORMATION SYSTEM is a device or interconnected devices which pursuant to a computer/information program perform(s) automatic processing of computer
data/information/logical/arithmetic/storage functions including computer data/information stored/ processed/ retrieved/transmitted by the computer/information system including any communication facility or equipment and the internet.

[Sources: ITU Toolkit for Cybercrime Legislation. Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.
Comprehensive Study on Cybercrime. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2013. International
Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, p. 85, including footnote 128]

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