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  • Research debt items: 3

Computer Fraud and Abuse

Summary

Computer fraud and abuse in U.S. federal law commonly refers to criminal prohibitions on unauthorized access and related computer activity under 18 U.S.C. § 1030.

Verified Facts

  • STAT-CFAA-1030 is the OIR seed statute record for 18 U.S.C. § 1030.1
  • OIR seed sources include Cornell LII and GovInfo pages for 18 U.S.C. § 1030.1
  • CASE-VAN-BUREN-V-US is an OIR seed case record interpreting the CFAA phrase "exceeds authorized access."2

Historical Context

Historical context has not yet been drafted.

Legal analysis has not yet been drafted. Future work should compare statutory text against official U.S. Code sources and add additional relevant case law.

Relationships

  • TOPIC-COMPUTER-FRAUD cites SRC-USC-18-1030-GOVINFO.
  • TOPIC-COMPUTER-FRAUD related_to STAT-CFAA-1030.
  • TOPIC-COMPUTER-FRAUD related_to CASE-VAN-BUREN-V-US.

Sources

  1. SRC-USC-18-1030-LII: 18 U.S.C. § 1030.
  2. SRC-VAN-BUREN-LII: Van Buren v. United States, 593 U.S. 374 (2021) (Cornell LII).

Additional sources (not yet cited in footnotes):

Research Debt

  • Add case law beyond CASE-VAN-BUREN-V-US interpreting unauthorized access and scope of § 1030.
  • Distinguish criminal computer fraud statutes from civil or state-law regimes.
  • Review per-fact footnote-to-source mapping; multiple sources are cited on this page.

Document metadata

  • Last verified: 2026-06-19

  1. SRC-USC-18-1030-LII — 18 U.S.C. § 1030. Primary authority. ↩↩

  2. SRC-VAN-BUREN-LII — Van Buren v. United States, 593 U.S. 374 (2021) (Cornell LII). Primary authority. ↩