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Account Takeover and Unauthorised Access

Last updated on May 28, 2024

If someone takes over your online account, accesses your data or the hardware/software on your computer without your permission, that person is guilty of the offence of unauthorized access.1 For example, if someone gains access to your Gmail account without your permission. 

The offender is liable to pay you damages/compensation by way of a monetary amount not exceeding one crore rupees. However, it needs to be established that the offender accessed your account dishonestly.2

  1. Section 43(a), The Information Technology Act. [↩]
  2. Section 24 and 25, The Indian Penal Code, 1860. [↩]

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Patel Tanvi sureshbhai

December 11, 2023

One boy is on Instagram he is fraud and scam and by mistake i was visited his link which is share by him on Instagram as a sponsored in gaming materials and now he hack my gaming account which is linked with Facebook account and he changed my id password and he is not giving me the password until i give him nudes pics

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Iman Sukul

June 20, 2025

My ex girlfriend took back my account and made my phone factory reset and all my important data and documents gone their is nothing in my phone now. I can not acess my google account also.

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