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computer crime

Broad term applying to any type of crime committed via a computer, including unauthorized access to files. Most computer crime is committed by disgruntled former employees or subcontractors. Examples include the releasing of viruses, hacking, and computer fraud. Many countries, including the USA and the UK, have specialized law enforcement units to supply the technical knowledge needed to investigate computer crime.

In 2005 the FBI estimated that the annual cost to US companies of combating computer related crime amounted to $67 billion.
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Groups, such as the United Nations, the 08, the Council of Europe, the OECD, and Interpol, each have delineated confidentiality, integrity, and availability offenses as forming the minimum basis of proscribed computer criminal behavior.
Making Computer Crime Count by GOODMAN, MARC / The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Only after the appearance of the movie Wargames in 1983, in which Matthew Broderick portrays a teenager with a modem who breaks into Defense Department computers and almost starts World War III, did the term come to mean someone who was a computer criminal.
CYBERPUNKS by Markoff, John / New York Times Upfront
In 1989, he helped to capture and convict the elusive computer criminal Kevin Mitnik.
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