Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Act 2017

Interference with information system without lawful authority

3. A person who, without lawful authority, intentionally hinders or interrupts the functioning of an information system by—

(a) inputting data on the system,

(b) transmitting, damaging, deleting, altering or suppressing, or causing the deterioration of, data on the system, or

(c) rendering data on the system inaccessible,

shall be guilty of an offence.