Hacking is it a crime

Answer 1

That depends on what you hacked and what way you hacked it. Did you know it's actually illegal to add/remove a user account on a computer that's not yours, if you on a limited account. In a court of law, this is considered hacking.

In Ireland there was a case a while back in which a person ended up in court for the above reason being tried as a computer hacker.

Yet about 3 months later somebody happened to stumble upon a flaw in a prominent politicions website, he published his findings, got caught, and was told "he was nothing more than a router with too much time on his hands who got lucky" and this particular man had studied IT in one of the best colleges in the country.

Answer 2

That depends on your definition of "hacking". The accurate use of the word just refers to finding ways to get computers to do things other than what the designer had in mind. That kind of hacking is not universally a crime. When you start talking about getting into computers you have not been granted permission to be in or change information you do not have authority to change, or interrupting the communications of computers, then YES - IT IS A CRIME! That kind of computer "hacking" is considered to be the province of the lowest scum of the computer world. Cyber criminals are the hoodlums, muggers, rapists, and child molesters of the cyber world.

Answer 3

If someone hacks into a computer, computer network, computer system or computer service, it is a highly punishable crime. This is justified by the severeness of the hacking an would be punishable by jail with the Computer Misuse Act 1990, which was publish internationally.