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 Unauthorized access: Accessing, securing access to, or causing access to a computer, computer system, or network without permission from the owner or authorized person.

 Unauthorized data handling: Downloading, copying, or extracting data, computer databases, or information from a computer system without permission.  Computer contamination: Introducing or causing the introduction of computer viruses or contaminants.  Damage to systems: Damaging or causing damage to computer systems, data, or programs.  Disruption: Disrupting or causing disruption to a computer system or network.

 Denial of access: Denying or causing the denial of access to a computer system by any means.  Violation of confidentiality: Hacking, altering, deleting, ..10..

2025:KER:37200 or adding data or other programs in a computer system.

To trigger a penalty under Section 43 of the IT Act, accessing, downloading, introducing virus, damaging the computer, computer system or network data, creating disruption, denying access, destroying or deleting the information, stealing, concealing or altering the computer source code by a person without permission of the owner in charge of the computer, computer system or computer network must be established. If someone dishonestly or fraudulently engages in any of the acts outlined in Section 43 of the IT Act, offence under Section 66 of the IT Act gets attracted and they can be punished for the said office. Thus, the offence under Section 43 read with Section 66 of the IT Act only contemplates a situation where someone dishonestly or fraudulently does any act under Section 43 of the IT Act.