Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism in Polish Law (original) (raw)

The aim of the paper is to analyze the provisions criminalizing the phenomenon of “computer crimes” (“cybercrimes”) in the strict sense, i.e. acts in which a computer or network is the target of a crime (“a victim”). The paper consists of two parts—the main part in which analysis of articles 267-269c of the Penal Code of 1997 (Chapter XXXIII, entitled “Offenses against the protection of information”)—in which the Polish legislator defined these offenses—is carried out. The second part refers to the “cyberterrorist offense” which is an “ordinary” computer crime carried out with a “terrorist purpose”.