Unauthorised computer access and data interference attract compensatory liability for affected persons, covering viruses, disruption, misuse, and source-code tampering.

Section 43 establishes compensatory liability for unauthorised access, data extraction, introduction of contaminants or viruses, damage, disruption, denial of authorised access, account manipulation, information interference, and source-code tampering intended to cause damage. Damages by way of compensation are payable to the affected person. Computer contaminants and viruses include harmful instructions affecting data, programmes or normal computer operations, while damage includes destruction, alteration, deletion, addition, modification or rearrangement of a computer resource.

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