(Prohibition of acts of wrongful storing someone else's identification code)
Article 6 No person shall store someone else's identification code associated with an access
control feature that has been wrongfully obtained to engage in an act of unauthorized computer
access.
(Prohibition of acts of illicitly requesting input of identification code)
Article 7 No person shall engage in any of the acts listed below by impersonating an access
administrator who has added an access control feature to a specified computer or otherwise
creating a false impression of him/her being the access administrator concerned. However, this
shall not apply if permission has been obtained from the access administrator concerned.
(ⅰ) An act of leaving the following false information accessible to the general public via
automatic public transmission carried out through connection to a telecommunications link
(the kind designed for on-demand activation and direct reception by the general public,
excluding broadcasting or cable broadcasting): information purporting to be the access
administrator concerned requesting an authorized user who has been allocated an
identification code associated with the access control feature concerned to input the
identification code concerned into a specified computer
(ⅱ) An act of transmitting the following false information to the authorized user concerned via
an email (an email as specified in Article 2, item (ⅰ), of the Act on Regulation of
Transmission of Specified Electric Mail (Act No. 26 of 2002): information purporting to be
the access administrator concerned requesting an authorized user who has been allocated an
identification code associated with the access control feature concerned to input the
identification code concerned into a specified computer
(Protective measures by access administrators)
Article 8 An access administrator who has added an access control feature to a specified
computer shall endeavor to properly manage identification codes associated with the access
control feature concerned or codes used to confirm them via the access control feature
concerned, and shall always verify the effectiveness of the access control feature concerned,
with efforts made to promptly take appropriate measures to protect the specified computer
concerned from acts of unauthorized computer access, such as an enhancement of the function
of the access control feature concerned, whenever deemed necessary.
(Assistance, etc. by prefectural public safety commissions)
Article 9 A prefectural public safety commission (a Area public safety commission in the case
of areas (as specified in the main clause of Article 51, paragraph (1), of the Police Act (Act
No.162 of 1954), the same applying hereafter in this paragraph) other than the one containing
the seat of the Hokkaido Prefectural Police Headquarters, the same applying hereafter in this
article) shall, in the event of recognizing the occurrence of an act of unauthorized computer
access, provide the access administrator associated with the specified computer that has been