جريمة اختراق الأمن السيبراني و حماية استخدام البيانات و المعلومات في القانون المصري

Abstract EN

The academic research dealt with defining cyber security and its importance, features and threats to it, clarifying the nature of electronic crime, and identifying the crime of hacking a computer from a technical point of view and legal nature.

With an explanation of how the Egyptian legislator tackled this crime and an explanation of the text of criminalization and punishment and the availability of its elements.

And the important practical consequences of the occurrence of that crime, represented in the violation of the rights of individuals, including crimes of assault on the sanctity of private life, which include the crimes of eavesdropping, transmitting or recording, taking or transmitting a person’s picture, broadcasting or using a recording or document, or threatening to disclose With its contents, linking personal data of others with content contrary to public morals, illegal or mistaken entry and illegal stay on a website, private account or information system, fraud and attack on bank cards and electronic payment tools for individuals, fabricating and attributing an email site or private account to a person natural.

Also, considered a violation of the rights of the state or one of its institutions, including crimes of attacking the state’s information systems, including crimes of attacking the integrity of information networks, fabricating and attributing an e-mail site or a private account to a legal person, managing or using a site or private account with the aim of committing or facilitating Committing a crime, attacking bank cards and electronic payment tools for state institutions, and other crimes.

And to clarify the distinction between those effects, whether they are crimes harmful to the security of the state from the inside, whether it is social, political, economic, or related to the system of government and to the protection of security and stability enjoyed by individuals, or attacks on state security from the outside to protect the independence and sovereignty of the state.