Prior to 2000
The very first legislation on a federal level regarding computer crime was the Counterfeit Access Device and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 1984. This Act made obtaining financial or credit information through a computer a misdemeanor. Before this Act was put in place, there was not much that could be done for computer fraud. Not only did this Act help fight against computer fraud, but it also acted against the use of computers as a means of inflicting damage on other computing systems. Note that this was a Federal Act, and about half of the states passed similar statutes for greater enforcement. It was around this time in 1984 that there was an organized effort to try to define what exactly constitutes "computer crime" ("Computer Crime").
Despite the new laws, in 1987, a report by Ernst and Whinney found that approximately $3-5 billion is lost each year due to computer crime ("Computer Crime"). The increased money loss can be attributed to the growing accessibility of the Internet, for Internet service providers were starting to develop large customer bases.
A few years later, the Computer Emergency and Response Team at Carnegie-Mellon university found that between 1991 and 1994, the percent of intrusions in the United States increased by a whopping 498%. They also found that the number of individual homes and office locations affected by computer crime went up 702% ("Computer Crime").
To help combat the exploding amount of computer crimes, a new team was formed under the FBI--the National Computer Crime Squad. This team worked exclusively on cases involving computer crime, and between 1991 and 1997, it investigated over two hundred individual cases ("Computer Crime").
Prior to 2000
The very first legislation on a federal level regarding computer crime was the Counterfeit Access Device and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 1984. This Act made obtaining financial or credit information through a computer a misdemeanor. Before this Act was put in place, there was not much that could be done for computer fraud. Not only did this Act help fight against computer fraud, but it also acted against the use of computers as a means of inflicting damage on other computing systems. Note that this was a Federal Act, and about half of the states passed similar statutes for greater enforcement. It was around this time in 1984 that there was an organized effort to try to define what exactly constitutes "computer crime" ("Computer Crime").
Despite the new laws, in 1987, a report by Ernst and Whinney found that approximately $3-5 billion is lost each year due to computer crime ("Computer Crime"). The increased money loss can be attributed to the growing accessibility of the Internet, for Internet service providers were starting to develop large customer bases.
A few years later, the Computer Emergency and Response Team at Carnegie-Mellon university found that between 1991 and 1994, the percent of intrusions in the United States increased by a whopping 498%. They also found that the number of individual homes and office locations affected by computer crime went up 702% ("Computer Crime").
To help combat the exploding amount of computer crimes, a new team was formed under the FBI--the National Computer Crime Squad. This team worked exclusively on cases involving computer crime, and between 1991 and 1997, it investigated over two hundred individual cases ("Computer Crime").
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