(1) Protected Interests Subject to Cybercrime Punishment
In Japan, computer network systems (including both control of access and data processing) have become the basis of various activities in society. Once they are attacked, many or unspecified persons may be damaged with regard to the secrecy, integrity, and availability of information. Without any restraint on such attacks, people would distrust computer network systems and abandon the use of the proper functions of such systems. Therefore, Japanese law is said to regard “publictrust in the computer network system as a whole” as aprotected interest whose violation will be punished.