1 CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
1.1 Would any of the following activities constitute a
criminal offence in your jurisdiction? If so, please provide
details of the offence, the maximum penalties available, and any
examples of prosecutions in your jurisdiction:
The content of the following offences can be found in various
articles of the "Criminal Code of the Republic of
Albania", even though the latter does not provide a literal
denomination of them.
Hacking (i.e. unauthorised access)
Hacking constitutes a criminal offence in the Albanian
jurisdiction. Article 192/b/1 of the "Criminal Code of the
Republic of Albania" provides that unauthorised access or
excess of authorisation to a computer system or part of it, through
violation of security measures, is punishable by a fine or
imprisonment for up to three years. According to the Final Report
of the General Prosecutor on the state of criminality for the year
2017, 11 cases have been recorded by the Prosecution body, two
