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HACKING AND UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Under new cyber crime and computer laws, a person convicted of computer hacking, virus writing, and computer worm development could get 20 years to life in prison.

Sometimes out of curiosity, Internet website visitors may exceed the access authorized to them under their website access login and under the website’s terms of use. Even using commercially available scripts may generate serious computer crime accusation of hacking and unauthorized access to a computer network.

If you are facing an accusation of being a computer hacker, a cyber crime and hacking defense attorney from our firm is a technically competent attorney who understands the technical aspects of the Internet in order to provide you with a competent defense. A typical criminal defense attorney without computer knowledge may not understand many of the challenges that can be made against electronic evidence.

Computer trespass is the use of a computer or computer network without authority and with the intent to remove computer data, computer programs, or computer software from a computer or computer network, cause a computer to malfunction, alter or erase any computer data, computer programs, or computer software, effect the creation or alteration of a financial instrument or of an electronic transfer of funds, cause physical injury to the property of another