State Public Prosecution: Imprisonment and a fine are the penalty for assaulting the data of financial, commercial or economic establishments
The State Public Prosecution clarified, through a film material that it published today on its accounts on social networking sites, that the penalty for attacking the data of financial or commercial establishments is that of the economy using information technology.
The Public Prosecution indicated that according to Article 8 of Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2021 regarding combating rumors and cybercrime, which stipulates that he shall be punished by temporary imprisonment for a period of no less than (5) years and a fine of no less than 500,000 dirhams and not more than 3 million. Dirhams for anyone who obtains, possesses, alters, destroys, discloses, leaks, cancels, deletes, alters, copies, publishes or republishes without authorization confidential information or data of a financial, commercial or economic facility using information technology or an information technology means.
The dissemination of this information comes within the framework of the State Public Prosecution’s ongoing campaign to enhance the legal culture among members of society, publish all the new and updated legislation in the country, and raise the level of public awareness of the law, with the aim of spreading the culture of law as a way of life.
State Public Prosecution: Imprisonment and a fine is a penalty for attacking the data of financial, commercial or economic establishments using information technology.
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