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Cybercrime & digital privacy

Cybercrime, Digital Privacy & Online Blackmail

Cybercrime, digital-privacy and online-blackmail matters: preserve volatile data, establish account control and coordinate reporting, defence or victim steps.

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Digital cases turn on attribution, authority and preservation: identify the account or device, the access alleged, who controlled it and whether the source data remains verifiable.

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Preserve the source before analysing the screenshot

Criminal defence, corporate response and victim representation for hacking, account takeover, online fraud, digital extortion and unlawful use or disclosure of private communications in Georgia.

Account takeover, online blackmail, private-message publication and payment fraud leave overlapping platform, device and banking trails. Evidence should be collected without altering timestamps, deleting content or exposing additional private material.

Check identity, access, evidence integrity and alleged harm

Preserve volatile digital evidence without altering it

Separate device ownership from authorship and account control

Identify authorisation, access method, intent and alleged consequence

Coordinate criminal, privacy, employment, platform and recovery issues

Georgian Criminal Code — explained

Digital conduct separated by access, threat and use

Article 284

Unauthorised access to a computer system

Ownership of a device or account does not prove unauthorised access; permission, attribution, method and consequence should be tested.

Read full guide →Article 157

Disclosure of information on private life or personal data

Covers specified unlawful obtaining, storage, use or disclosure that satisfies the article's consequence and circumstance requirements; privacy concern alone does not settle criminal liability.

Read full guide →Article 286

Interference with computer data or systems

May be relevant where alteration, deletion, damage or obstruction is alleged; reliable forensic attribution is critical.

Read full guide →Article 180

Fraud

The investigation must distinguish alleged deceptive appropriation from contractual non-performance, commercial risk or a later inability to pay.

Read full guide →Article 177

Theft

Concerns covert taking of another person's movable property; possession, ownership, identification and intent require proof.

Read full guide →Article 181

Extortion

Potentially relevant to a property demand accompanied by a qualifying threat; the demand, threat, purpose and communications should be examined together.

Read full guide →Article 151

Threat

Requires examination of the alleged threat and whether it produced a reasonable fear that it would be carried out.

Read full guide →Article 157¹

Disclosure of secrets of personal life

May be relevant where a secret of personal life is unlawfully obtained, stored, used or disclosed; the nature of the information, conduct, medium, role and intent require proof.

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