UkraineCriminal Code, Unauthorized Interference with Information Systems
Criminal Code of Ukraine, Law No. 2341-III, art. 361 (unauthorized interference)
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A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not interfere, without authorization, in the operation of an information, electronic communications or information-and-communications system or network.
- Reading or downloading data from a public, unauthenticated page, without altering, blocking or disrupting the system's operation, has not itself been held to violate this article.
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If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionNo
Criminal exposure note
Part 1: a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens, or probation supervision for up to three years, or restriction of liberty for the same term. Part 2 (repeated, or by prior conspiracy of a group): a fine of 3,000 to 7,000 such minimums, or restriction of liberty for two to five years, or imprisonment for the same term. Part 3 (leak, loss, forgery or blocking of information, or disruption of its processing or routing): a fine of 7,000 to 10,000 such minimums, or imprisonment for three to eight years, with or without a bar on holding certain positions or engaging in certain activities for up to three years. Part 4 (significant harm, or danger of serious technological accident, environmental catastrophe, death or mass illness): imprisonment for eight to twelve years, with the same bar. Part 5 (part 3 or 4 conduct committed during martial law): imprisonment for ten to fifteen years, with the same bar.
Penalty structure
Amounts are expressed in the statute as multiples of the non-taxable minimum income of citizens (a fixed accounting unit, not the minimum wage), from 1,000 (part 1 minimum) to 10,000 (part 3 maximum) such minimums; parts 4 and 5 carry imprisonment only, with no fine. The highest fine tier is stated as a minimum-income multiple, not a UAH amount; convert using the statutory non-taxable minimum in force on the date of the offense.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- UAH
- Fixed cap
- 10,000
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 361 punishes unauthorized interference in information, electronic communication and information-communication systems and networks, with heavier penalties for repeat or group acts, leaks, losses or blocking of information, significant harm, and acts in martial law, and part 6 excludes acts done under the procedure for finding potential vulnerabilities. It imposes no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record and carries no territorial clause of its own; the Code's general articles on where its criminal law applies are not invoked by it.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 361 punishes unauthorized interference in the operation of an information (automated), electronic communications or information-and-communications system, or an electronic communications network, with escalating penalties where the act is repeated, committed by a prior conspiracy of a group, causes a leak, loss, forgery or blocking of information, distorts the processing of information or disrupts its routing, or causes significant harm or a danger of serious technological accident or environmental catastrophe.
Part 6 excludes from the offense conduct carried out in accordance with an established procedure for searching for and detecting the systems' or networks' potential vulnerabilities. This redaction of the article dates from Law No. 2149-IX (), which added the martial-law tier described above; the article has since been further amended by Law No. 3342-IX ().
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