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Article 6 Fraud related to information systems

United Kingdom

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Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that performing or causing a transfer of money, monetary value or virtual currency and thereby causing an unlawful loss of property for another person in order to make an unlawful gain for the perpetrator or a third party is punishable as a criminal offence, when committed intentionally by:

  1. (a)

    without right, hindering or interfering with the functioning of an information system;

  2. (b)

    without right, introducing, altering, deleting, transmitting or suppressing computer data.