{"id":2008,"date":"2019-12-28T21:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T21:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcyberlaw.com\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2019-12-28T21:15:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T21:15:40","slug":"hacking-section-43-of-the-it-act-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcyberlaw.com\/?p=2008","title":{"rendered":"Hacking – Section 43 and Section 66 of the IT Act, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

43. Penalty and compensation for damage to computer, computer system, etc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If any person<\/p>\n\n\n\n

without permission<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

of the owner or any other person who is incharge of a computer, computer system or computer network, or computer resource \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. accesses or secures access<\/span><\/strong> to such computer, computer system or computer network; <\/li>
  2. downloads, copies or extracts any data<\/span><\/strong>, computer data base or information from such computer, computer system or computer network including information or data held or stored in any removable storage medium; <\/li>
  3. introduces or causes to be introduced any computer contaminant or computer virus into any computer<\/span>,<\/strong> computer system or computer network; <\/li>
  4. damages or causes to be damaged any computer<\/span><\/strong>, computer system or computer network, data, computer data base or any other programmes residing in such computer, computer system or computer network; <\/li>
  5. disrupts or causes disruption of any computer<\/span><\/strong>, computer system or computer network; <\/li>
  6. denies or causes the denial of access to any person authorised to access any computer,<\/span><\/strong> computer system or computer network by any means; (g) provides any assistance to any person to facilitate access to a computer, computer system or computer network in contravention of the provisions of this Act, rules or regulations made thereunder; <\/li>
  7. charges the services availed of by a person to the account of another person<\/span><\/strong> by tampering with or manipulating any computer, computer system, or computer network, he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation to the person so affected. <\/li>
  8. destroys, deletes or alters any information residing in a computer resource<\/strong> <\/span>or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by any means; <\/li>
  9. steel, conceals, destroys or alters or causes any person to steal, conceal, destroy or alter any computer source code<\/span><\/strong> used for a computer resource with an intention to cause damage; <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Explanation<\/em>.
    <\/span><\/strong>For the purposes of this section:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. “computer contaminant” <\/strong>means any set of computer instructions that are designed \u2014