Cybercrime act of Pakistan 2015

1. Cybercrime act of Pakistan (2015)
Cybercrime:
Computer Crime or Cybercrime is any crimethat involves
a computer and a network. (Also known as hacking) The computer may have
been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target. Net crime
is criminalexploitation of the internet, inherently a Cybercrime.
Types of Cybercrime
Types Examples
Financial Crimes Cheating, credit card frauds, money
laundering etc.
Sale of illegal
articles
Sale of narcotics, weapons and wildlife etc.,
through websites or email communication.
Online gambling Online gambling, money laundering etc.
Intellectual
property crimes
Software piracy, copyright infringement,
trademarks violations, theft of compute
source code etc.
Email spoofing Sending e-mails that appear to originate
from one source but actually has been sent
from another source.
Forgery Counterfeit currency notes, postage and
revenue stamps, mark sheets etc.
Cyber Defamation Publishing/distributing defamatory matter
about someone.
Unauthorized
access to
computer system
Hacking.

2. or networks
Theft of
information in
electronic form
Stealing information on computer hard
disks, removable storage media etc.
Email bombing Sending a large number of emails crashing
email accounts or servers.
Data diddling Altering data.
Salami attacks Commissioning financial crimes.
Denial of service
attack
Flooding systems by
sendingexcessivedemands etc.
Virus attacks Spread of viruses and worms.
Logic bombs Triggering programs at events.
Trojan attacks Unauthorized programs.
Internet time theft Stealing internet hours.
Web jacking Stealing control over websites.
Theftor damaging
of computer
system
Theft of a computer, peripherals etc.
Unauthorized
access
The Cybercrime of “gaining entry into,
instructing or communicating with the
logical, arithmetical, or memory function
resources of a computer, computer system
or computer network”11 known as access
has the greatest impact Packet sniffing,
tempest attack,password cracking and
buffer overflow etc. are some techniques for
gaining access.
Offences and Punishments
Illegal access to information system:
1. Cause an information system to perform any function with intent to
secure access to the whole or any part of any information system or to
enable any such access to be secured ;

3. 2. At the time, when he causes the information system to perform the
function he knows that the access he intends to secure or to be enable
to be secured is unauthorized under this section.
Fine Punishment Both
6 Months 100,000PKR Yes
Illegal access to program or data:
(a) Whoever intentionally, whether temporarily or not,
1. Causes to any program or data to be secured or to be enabled.
2. The access to the program or data he intends to secure, or to
enable to be secured, is unauthorized under this section.
3. At the time, when he accesses the program or data he knows that
the access he intends to secure, or to enable to be secured, is
unauthorized under this section.
Fine Punishment Both
200,000PKR 9 Months Yes
(b) Whoever recklessly, whether temporarily or not,
1. Causes to any program or data to be secured or to be enabled.
2. The access to the program or data he intends to secure, or to
enable to be secured, is unauthorized under this section.
3. At the time, when he accesses the program or data he knows that
the access he intends to secure, or to enable to be secured, is
unauthorized under this section.
Fine Punishment Both
100,000PKR 6 Months Yes
Illegal Interface with Program or Data:
(a)Whoever intentionally, whether temporarily or not, does any
unauthorized act in relation to an information system, or at

4. the time when he does the act he knows that it is
unauthorized, and acts with intent;
1. To destroy, damage, delete, erase, generate, modify or alter
any program or data;
2. To render any program or data inaccessible, meaningless,
useless or ineffective;
3. To obstruct, interface or interrupt with any program or data or
any aspect or attribute related to the program or data;
4. To obstruct, interface or interrupt with any person in the use
of any program or data or any aspect or attribute related
to the program or data;
5. To deny, prevent, suppress or hinder access to any program or
data to any person entitled to it;
6. To impair the operation of any program or any aspect or
attribute related to the program or data;
Fine Punishment Both
500,000PKR 3 Years Yes
(a) Whoever recklessly, whether temporarily or not, does any
unauthorized act in relation to an information system, or at
the time when he does the act he knows that it is
unauthorized, and acts with intent;
1. Causing destruction, damage, deletion, eraser, generation
modification or alteration of any program or data or any
aspect or attribute related to the program or data;
2. Rendering any program or data meaningless, useless or
ineffective;
3. Causing impairment to the operation of any program;
4. Causing impairment to the reliability of any program or data
or any aspect or attribute related to the program or data;

5. 5. Causing denial, suppression or hindrance of access to any
program or data or any aspect or attribute related to the
program or data;
Fine Punishment Both
250,000PKR 2 Years Yes
Illegal Interface with Information System:
(a) Whoever intentionally, whether temporarily or not, does any
unauthorized access in relation to an information system, at the
time when he does the act he knows that is unauthorized, and
acts with intent to severely;
1. Interfere, hinder, damage, prevent, suppress, impair or obstruct
the functioning of an information system;
2. Interfere with or hinder access to any information system;
3. Impair the operation of any information system;
4. Impair the reliability of any information system;
5. Impair the security of any information system;
Fine Punishment Both
500,000PKR 5 Years yes
(b)Whoever recklessly, whether temporarily or not, does any
unauthorized access in relation to an information system, at the
time when he does the act he knows that is unauthorized, and
acts recklessly thereby cause severe;
1. Interference, damage, hindrance, prevention, suppression or
obstruction to the function of an information system;
2. Interference or hindrance to the access of any information
system;
3. Impairment to the operation of any information system;
4. Impairment to the reliability of any information system;
5. Impairment to the security of any information system;
Fine Punishment Both

6. 250,000PKR 2 years Yes
(c)Whoever commits any offence under sub-section (a) By
circumventing or infringing security with respect to any
information system, program or data shall be punished with
imprisonment of
Fine Punishment Both
500,000PKR 3 Years Yes
(d) Whoever commits any offenceunder sub-section (b) by
circumventing or infringing security with respect to any
information system, programor data shall be punished with
imprisonmentof
Fine Punishment Both
250,000PKR 2 Years Yes
(d) Whoever commits any offence under sub section (a) with respect
to any Government controlled critical infrastructure information
system; program or data that performs a critical public function
shall be punished with imprisonment of
Fine Punishment Both
7000000 PKR 7 Years Yes
Cyber Terrorism:
(a) Whoever commits or threatens to commit any of the offences
under
1. The use or threat is designed to coerce, intimidate, overawe or
create a sense of fear in Government or public section.

7. 2. The use or threat of purposes the advancing of the cause
where political or religious with intention of—
3. Interfering or disrupting the system,
4. Severe interfere, serious disrupting or damaging the payment
system of multiple institutions,
5. Severe Interfere, seriously damage the system at the public
scale,
6. Severe interfere, serious disrupting or damaging the system of
Civil forces, Armed forces and security forces,
Fine Punishment Both
50,000,000 PKR 14 Years Yes
Electronic Forgery:
(a) Whoever;
1. Without authority,
2. In excess of authority,
3. Through an unauthorized act,
Inputs, generates, modifies, delete or suppress data resulting
in inauthentic data with any person or an information system
shall be punished,
Fine Punishment Both
250,000PKR 2 Years Yes
(b)Whoever commits any offence;
1. for wrongfulgain;
2. for wrongfulloss;
3. for any economic benefit for oneself or for another person,
Fine Punishment Both
250,000PKR 2 Years Yes
(c) Whoever commits any offence, fraudulently, dishonestly or
with similar intent;

8. 1. To influence the public servantin the exercise of a public duty;
2. To influence a Governmentcontrolled information systemor
public information system
Shall be punished
Fine Punishment Both
500,000PKR 3 Years Yes
Electronic Fraud:
Whoever with fraudulent or dishonest intent;
1. Without authority;
2. In excess of authority;
3. Through an unauthorized act;
4. Any illegal access to information system;
5. Any input, alteration or deletion or suppression theprogramor
data
6. Any inference or hindrance data;
7. Copying , transferring the data or moving to any other
information system
i. Wrongful gain;
ii. Wrongful loss;
iii. Any economic benefit for oneself or another person;
Shall be punished
Fine Punishment Both
10,000,000PKR 5 Years Yes
Making, Supplying or obtaining devices for use in offence:
1. Whoever produces, makes any device intending it primarily to
be used or believing that it is primarily to be used to commit;

9. Fine Punishment Both
50,000 PKR 6 Months Yes
2. Whoever transfer, imports, shares or distributes any device
that it to be primarily used to commit;
Fine Punishment Both
100,000 PKR 1 Years Yes
Identify Crime:
1. Whoever knowingly obtains or process of any person’s
identity information without law justification and use in
offensivework shallbe punished;
Fine Punishment Both
50,000 PKR 3 Months Yes
2. Whoever transmits or makes available identity of any
person without permission for Fraud or deceit etc shall be
punished ;
Fine Punishment Both
100,000 PKR 6 Months Yes
Special Protection of Women:
1. Whoever knowingly or publically displays electronic
communication that harms the reputation of women,
threatens sexual acts against women or any explicit images
Shall be punished
Fine Punishment Both
10,000,00 PKR 1 Year Yes