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Criminal Code Act 1983
276CUnlawful modification of data
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276C Unlawful modification of data
(1) A person:
(a) who unlawfully causes any modification of data held in a
computer; and
(b) who intends by the modification to impede access to, or to
adversely affect the reliability, security or operation of, data
held in a computer,
(2) A person causes modification of data held in a computer if the
person sets in train a course of events that results in the
modification, even if the person did not himself or herself access
the particular computer in which the data is modified but the
modification would not have occurred but for the person's action.