{"id":606,"date":"2024-04-09T03:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T03:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/topic\/cyber-bullying-criminal-damage\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T08:56:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T08:56:48","slug":"criminal-damage","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/topic\/cyberbullying\/criminal-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/200\/s60.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">section 60<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/200\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crimes Ordinance<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/legis\/ord\/200\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cap. 200<\/a>), a person who  without lawful excuse intentionally destroys or damages any property belonging  to another person or is reckless as to whether any such property is destroyed  or damaged is guilty of an offence.<\/p>\n<p> In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hklii.hk\/eng\/hk\/cases\/hkca\/2001\/221.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HKSAR v Ko Kam fai<\/a>, which  involved charges of criminal intimidation, as well as charges of criminal  damage, the defendant hacked into the e-mail accounts of his two victims and  changed some data in their computers. As a result of the large number of emails  he sent them, their e-mail accounts were overloaded to the extent that they became  inoperative. His actions amounted to criminal damage, as the computers ceased  to operate as a result of his activities. The principles in this case would apply  to cyberbullies who bombard their victim with e-mails, or hack into their  computers causing them to malfunction or become inoperative, even if this is of  short-term duration.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under section 60 of the Crimes Ordinance (Cap. 200), a person who without lawful excuse intentionally destroys or damages any property belonging to another person or is reckless as to whether any such property is destroyed or damaged is guilty of an offence. In HKSAR v Ko Kam fai, which involved charges of criminal intimidation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","topic-type":[9],"class_list":["post-606","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-type-cyberbullying"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youthclic.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-type?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}