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Thursday 16 May 2013

Hacking is offence under Information and Technology Act 2000.

Hacking

It is the most common type of Cyber crime being committed across the world. Hacking has been defined in section 66 of The Information Technology Act, 2000 as follows "whoever with the intent to cause or knowing that he is likely to cause wrongful loss or damage to the public or any person destroys or deletes or alters any information residing in a computer resource or 
diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by any means commits hacking"