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The Cyber Crime Law, provides that a penalty of imprisonment for a period that does not exceed three years and a fine that is not less than three thousand Dinars and does not exceed ten thousand Dinars, any person committing an illegal entry into the site or an information system directly or through the information network, or by any information technology methods for the purpose of obtaining information or data that is considered as confidential governmental information by virtue of the law. Further, the Cyber Crime Law provides that this provision shall apply also to all the information and data relating to the accounts of the clients of the bank facilities.
Moreover, the Cyber Crime Law, provides a penalty of imprisonment for a period that does not exceed two years and a fine that is not less than two thousand Dinars and does not exceed five thousand Dinars or either of these two penalties, for whoever commits an illegal entry into a computer or its system or a data electronic processing system or an automated electronic system, or an information network and such entry entails the annulment, erasure, damage, destruction, divulgence, change or the republishing of information and data.
Further, the Cyber Crime Law provides that if the illegal entry resulted in the annulment, destruction, deletion, publication, amendment of information or data that is considered as confidential governmental information by virtue of the law, the penalty shall be imprisonment for a period that does not exceed ten years and a fine that is not less than five thousand Dinars and does not exceed twenty thousand Dinars or by either of these two penalties. The same shall apply to all the information and data relating to the accounts of the clients of the bank facilities.

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