vernment facility,
             hacking, banditry or web banditry, theft of proprietary company information
             by an employee or outsider, computer sabotage, embezzlement by un-
             authorized sales of items or services, un-authorized access into credit
             card accounts, creation of destructive viruses or worms.
             The National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996
             amended the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, codified as 18 USC 1030, the law
             against fraud and related activities in connection with computers
             (Department of Justice). It punishes anyone who knowingly accesses a
             computer internet connection without authorization or in excess of
             authorized access and acquires information protected by the US government
             for reasons of national security or foreign relations (DOJ). This
             specifically pertains to information that can injure the US or transmitted
             to any person not entitled to receive it. It also penalizes anyone who
             acquires financial record from or about a financial institution, a card
             issuer, information in the file of a consumer reporting agency on a
             consumer; accesses a protected computer without authorization or in excess
             of authorized access with an intent to defraud (DOJ) or as a consequence,
             damages the property or person of a protected computer internet user. This
             law likewise prohibits defrauding traffic, stealing passwords or similar
             information, and extortion. The penalty is a fine, forfeiture, restitution
             or imprisonment of no more than 10 years and if the information is valued
             at more than $5,000 (DOJ). The implementing arm
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