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LVH · 11-02-2007, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Jay Griffin

Very interesting thread. For a moment let's assume Morgan or one of his employees or associates did in fact do what has been alleged. What law has been broken?

Are you referring to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? If so the value of the information obtained has to be a minimum of $5,000 for conviction. Has there been that much loss?

§ 1030 : AS AMENDED OCT. 11, 1996

If there is not $5000 in loss and it is not the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, what statute applies here? Just curious.

Maybe you just forgot to read this subsection

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4) knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period;

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(A) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;

(B) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes damage; or

(C) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage;

(6) knowingly and with intent to defraud traffics (as defined in section 1029) in any password or similar information through which a computer may be accessed without authorization, if--