LITT Law for lawyers and teams
Introduction
Crime is an illegal activity for which a person can be punished by law. Physical presence of a criminal and thereby resulting injury is not only a mode of committing a crime. Modes of committing a crime has also reached a new height with the advancement in technology. At present most, important information is stored on the online platforms and mostly all our data are available in the e format. Illegally accessing those documents or using those documents for tarnishing the image of any person is part of cybercrime.
The term cyber-crime has gained recognition and popular use. It has taken some time for the term to get the attention of the people in serious terms. Cybercrime is defined as a criminal offence that involves electronic communications or information systems including any electronic device such as a computer or the internet.
In a cybercrime involvement of computers is essential either it is used as a commission of a crime or it may be a target. Cybercrime is a threat to people, national security as well as financial health. It is a crime in which computer uses as instruments for the commission of the crime for committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography, intellectual property, violating privacy[1]. Cybercrime is also known as e-crime, electronic crimes, hi-tech crime, or computer oriented crime.
It is an act which is performed by a person with high technical skills in the field of information technology. They are called hackers who illegally browse or steal private information of a company or individual. It is an illegal act that is done by the way of digital form. It includes anything from downloading illegal music to monetary offences such as creating and releasing viruses on other computers or posting confidential business information on the internet.