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Section 67. Causing serious disturbance or disruption of the functioning of an electronic
communication network or terminal equipment by introducing, transmitting, changing,
deleting or altering data shall constitute a breach of the integrity of an electronic
communication network or an information system and shall be punishable in accordance with
Section 66 above.
Section 68. (1) Whoever fraudulently gains access or remains in all or part of an electronic
communication network or an information system by transmitting, destroying, causing serious
disturbance or disruption to the functioning of the said system or network shall be punished
with imprisonment for from 05 (five) to 10 (ten) years or a fine of from 10.000.000 (ten
million) to 50.000.000 (fifty million) CFA francs or both of such fine and imprisonment.
(2) The same penalties provided for in subsection 1 above shall be doubled where such acts
result in the deletion or change to the data contained in the information system or a change in
its functioning.
Section 69. Whoever accesses all or part of an electronic communication network, an
information system or terminal equipment without authorization and in violation of security
measures in order to obtain information or data relating to an information system connected to
another information system shall be punished with imprisonment for from 05 (five) to 10 (ten)
years or a fine of from 10 000 000 (ten million) to 100,000,000 (one hundred thousand
million) CFA francs or both of such fine and imprisonment.
Section 70. Whoever causes through saturation, the attack of an electronic communication
network device or an information system with the intention to cause its collapse thus
preventing it from rendering the expected services, shall be punished with a fine of from
1,000,000 (one million) to 5 000 000 (five million) CFA francs.
Section 71. Whoever without permission, introduces data into an information system or an
electronic communication network in order to delete or change the data contained therein,
shall be punished with imprisonment for from 02 (two) to 05 (five) years and a fine of from
1 000 000 (one million) to 25 000 000 (twenty five million) FCFA francs.
Section 72. Whoever without authorization and for financial gain, uses any means to
introduce, alter, erase or delete electronic data such as to cause damage to someone else's
property shall be punished with the penalties provided for in Section 66 above.
Section 73. (1) Whoever uses an information system or a counterfeit communication network
to falsify payment, credit or cash withdrawal card or uses or attempts to use, in full
knowledge of the facts, a counterfeit or falsified payment, credit or withdrawal card shall be
punished with imprisonment for from 02 (two) to 10 (ten) years and a fine of from 25,000,000
(twenty five million) to 50 000 000 (fifty million) CFA francs or both of such fine and
imprisonment.
(2) Whoever deliberately accepts to receive electronic communications payment using a
forged or falsified payment, credit or cash withdrawal card shall be punished in accordance
with Subsection 1 above.
Section 74. (1) Whoever uses any device to receive the privacy of another person by