The European Union
has decided to raise prison sentences for people found guilty of hacking, data
breaches, and cyber-attacks. Lawmakers
from 28 nations have decided to assign harsher penalties to include increased
prison sentences. A person will receive
two years for illegally accessing information systems and at least five years
for cyber-attacks against infrastructure such as power plants, water systems,
and transportation networks.
Other cybercrimes
that receive penalty increases were the illegal interception of communications
or the creation of tools for this purpose.
Also, any company that’s found guilty of using these tools or hires
hackers to steal data will also be liable under the new law.
The only country
that didn’t sign onto the new rules was Denmark because they want to keep their
own sentences. This is the first update
to such laws since 2011 when lawmakers agreed to tougher penalties for
cybercrimes. The U.S. is working hard to
clamp down on cybercriminals also. Last
month, members of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee
proposed a new cyber theft law that would target hackers based in other
countries. Back in May, a group of
senators proposed a similar bill call the “Deter Cyber Theft Act” to protect
commercial data from foreign hackers and governments.
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