Ley 26.388 — Modificación del Código Penal (Law 26,388 amending the Criminal Code on computer crimes)

Amends the Criminal Code for computer crime: it adds unauthorised access to restricted systems or data (Art. 153 bis), fraud by computer manipulation (Art. 173(16)) and damage to data, programs or systems (Art. 183), and rewrites the offences on electronic correspondence, personal data banks and interruption of communications (Arts. 153, 155, 157 bis, 197). Art. 77 now treats digital documents and signatures as documents. Sanctioned on 4 June 2008 and published on 25 June 2008.