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ARTICLE · 20 SEPTEMBER 2024

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Hong Kong Paves The Way For Its First Cybersecurity Legislation As Cyberattacks Become Increasingly "Commonplace"

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On 25 June 2024, the Government announced its proposals to enact a new cybersecurity legislation, tentatively ‘the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (Computer System) Bill' ("Bill").

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On 25 June 2024, the Government announced its proposals to enact a new cybersecurity legislation, tentatively 'the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (Computer System) Bill' ("Bill").

The Government first announced its plans to enact cybersecurity legislation as part of its 2021 policy address, as the number of cybersecurity incidents in the region continued to rise. According to a Legislative Council paper published on 2 July 2024, cybersecurity threats in Hong Kong are "increasingly commonplace".

From June 2023 to May 2024, the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre, received a total of 9,017 cybersecurity incident reports. Meanwhile, in the first quarter of this year the Hong Kong Police received more than 18,000 reports of cybersecurity attacks, with the number of incidents involving robot zombie computers seeing the greatest increase. In response, and following the lead of other jurisdictions including Mainland China, Singapore,

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