Legal Classification of the Offence of Installing a Card Magnetic Band Reading Device („Skimmer”) within the Cash Machine Slot

Abstract

The content of the notion of offence of informatics nature is extremely varied, being approached from different perspectives within the specialized literature and legal practice. By informatics criminal offence in the broad sense, one can understand any criminal offence in which a computer or a network of computers is the object of a criminal offence, or in which a computer or a network of computers are the instrument or means of carrying out a criminal offence [1] .By computer criminal offence in the restricted sense one can understand a criminal offence in which the perpetrator interferes, with no authorisation, with the processes of automatic data taking over