LiechtensteinStrafgesetzbuch Arts. 126a to 126c, Data Damage, System Interference and Misuse of Devices
StGB, LGBl. 1988 Nr. 37, §§ 126a-126c, inserted by LGBl. 2009 Nr. 228
In force since .
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
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What it requires
- Do not change, delete, or otherwise make unusable or suppress data processed, transmitted, or supplied by automation that is not at your sole disposal, in a way that causes damage to another person.
- Do not seriously interfere with the functioning of a computer system that you may not use, or may not use alone, by entering or transmitting data.
- Do not develop, distribute, procure, or possess a computer program, password, or access code evidently created or adapted to commit unauthorized access, data damage, or system interference, with the intent to use it for that purpose.
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Section 126a (damage to data): up to six months' imprisonment or a fine of up to 360 daily rates for the base offense; up to two years where the damage exceeds CHF 7,500; up to three years for compromising a great number of systems with a purpose-built tool; six months to five years where damage exceeds CHF 300,000, the act compromises critical infrastructure, or it is committed by a criminal group. Section 126b (interference with system functioning) carries the identical escalating structure. Section 126c (misuse of computer programs or access data): up to six months' imprisonment or a fine of up to 360 daily rates, with no punishment where the person voluntarily prevents the tool's use before any danger materializes.
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Logging duty
Section 126a punishes damaging data, section 126b seriously interfering with a computer system, and section 126c making or possessing programs or access codes for those offences or for unauthorized access. It imposes no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record. The Code's general territorial provisions are not invoked by these sections, so no hook is read from them.
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What this law does
Section 126a punishes a person who damages another by changing, deleting, or otherwise making unusable or suppressing data not at that person's sole disposal, with up to six months' imprisonment or a fine of up to 360 daily rates, rising to up to two years where the damage exceeds CHF 7,500, up to three years for compromising a large number of systems with a purpose-built tool, and six months to five years for damage exceeding CHF 300,000 or an act against critical infrastructure or by a criminal group.
Section 126b punishes serious interference with a computer system's functioning on the same escalating structure. Section 126c punishes developing, distributing, or possessing a computer program or password evidently created to commit any of these offenses, or the offense at § 118a, with up to six months' imprisonment or a fine of up to 360 daily rates, with a defense for a person who voluntarily prevents the tool's use.
An aggressive scraping or crawling operation that changes, deletes, or degrades data or a system it does not control, or that uses a purpose-built tool to compromise a large number of systems, is reached by this chapter. Sections 126a and 126b were inserted, and 126c enacted, by LGBl.
2009 Nr. 228, published , whose own commencement clause fixes that publication day as its Inkrafttreten; the higher CHF 300,000/critical-infrastructure/criminal-group tier of Secs. 126a and 126b was added later by LGBl. 2019 Nr. 124, in force , without altering the base offenses described above.
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