Prosecutions under the UK’s Computer Misuse Act (CMA) dropped by a fifth in 2020 even as conviction rates soared to 95 per cent during the year of the pandemic, new statistics have revealed. This week’s conviction statistics also showed that the most common CMA crime taken to court was the offence of “unauthorised access to computer material”, accounting for 33 of the year’s total of 45 prosecutions under the Act.

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