Cyber-Extorsion

Section 6 of Senate bill S. 2168, the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007, would create the crime of Cyber-Extorsion:

Section 1030(a)(7) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
`(7) with intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any--
`(A) threat to cause damage to a protected computer;
`(B) threat to obtain information from a protected computer without authorization or in excess of authorization or to impair the confidentiality of information obtained from a protected computer without authorization or by exceeding authorized access; or
`(C) demand or request for money or other thing of value in relation to damage to a protected computer, where such damage was caused to facilitate the extortion;'.

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