Electronic Transactions Act, 2008
Act 772
and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than two thousand
five hundred penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not more than
five years or to both.
Unauthorised access to devices
126. A person who unlawfully produces, sells, offers to sell, procures for
use, designs, adapts for use, distributes or possesses any device, including
a computer programme or a component, which is designed primarily to
overcome security measures for the protection of an electronic record, or
performs any of those functions with regard to a password, access code
or any other similar kind of electronic record, commits an offence and is
liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than two thousand
five hundred penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not more than
five years or to both.
Unauthorised circumvention
127. A person who without lawful authority utilises a device or computer programme in order to overcome security measures designed to
protect the electronic record or access to it commits an offence and is
liable on summary conviction to a fine of more than two thousand five
hundred penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not more than five
years or to both.
Denial of service
128. A person who commits any act described in this Act with intent
to interfere with access to an information system to effect a denial, including a partial denial of service to legitimate users commits an offence and
is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than two thousand
five hundred penalty units or a term of imprisonment of not more than
two years or to both.
Unlawful access to stored communications
129. (1) Whoever, without lawful authority, intentionally accesses a
facility through which an electronic communication service is provided,
commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not
more than five thousand penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of
not more than ten years or to both.
(2) Whoever without lawful authority exceeds an authorisation to
access a facility or obtains, alters, or prevents authorised access to a wire
or electronic communication while it is in electronic storage in a system
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