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Chapter 4, section 9c of the Swedish Penal Code. As described in section 5.1 above, a person who unlawfully alters or erases or inserts recording for automatic data processing, shall be sentenced for breach of data secrecy to fines or imprisonment for at most two years, or, if the crime is gross, to imprisonment for at least six months and at most six years. DoS-attacks and DDos-attacks will typically fall within the scope of Chapter 4, Section 9c of the Swedish Penal Code.
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Jörgen Axelsson: Setterwalls Advokatbyrå Stockholm AB