Signs of digital crime: Legal issues

Abstract

The paper examines the nature of digital crime and determines its signs. The main feature of the considered illegal act is the subject of encroachment, which shall be expressed in the form of information (messages, data) circulating in information and telecommunication devices, their systems and networks; it is the illegal, culpable influence on it that shall determine the harm caused to public relations. Wherein, the nature of such information can be different; this information can act as that social value about which certain legal relationships have developed or be a means of their implementation – these circumstances are indifferent for classifying acts as crimes in the field of digital information circulation.