It is a crime which includes the use of computer system and its devices with the use of internet, this crime can be carry out against particular individual or group of people, government and private organization.  The basis need of this crime is to harm someone’s reputation, mental harm or to benefit from it like monetary benefits or can terrorist.    It may refer to the use of an electronic devices such as computer, laptop, and many more for stealing someone’s personal data, it is an illegal activity which has a series of issues range from theft to using the system or IP address as a toll for committing a crime, cyber crime has some law by which they may get punishment to unauthorized access or illegal use of computer and the internet which has criminal intensions to damage and alteration of system.

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It is a crime which includes the use of computer system and its devices with the use of internet, this crime can be carry out against particular individual or group of people, government and private organization. 


The basis need of this crime is to harm someone’s reputation, mental harm or to benefit from it like monetary benefits or can terrorist. 

 

It may refer to the use of an electronic devices such as computer, laptop, and many more for stealing someone’s personal data, it is an illegal activity which has a series of issues range from theft to using the system or IP address as a toll for committing a crime, cyber crime has some law by which they may get punishment to unauthorized access or illegal use of computer and the internet which has criminal intensions to damage and alteration of system.

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Cyber-crime is still at the risk but not all people are victims of it, many crimes vary by computer but not always occurs behind computer some are executed by computer. Hacker can be anyone of any age, its year range can be up to 7 years to 70 years, they can be far away from the victim country or continent. Victim can not even know that he/she has been hacked or not, this crime is done behind the computers. 

 


With the increase in technology, the criminal activity is also increasing day by day, nowadays no one go outside to rob a bank, they simply use mouse and a keyboard to hack the bank or the account holder users by hacking their account number or pin number. 

 

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