Lege Trend: Criminalizing Ransome Ware. Read the Bill.

State: Indiana

Indiana legislation: HB 1444

What Indiana’s legislation does to penalize ransomeware users:

• Creates a new cyber crime for ransomeware
• Currently ransomeware would be a misdemeanor, this bill makes it a felony

Do other states treat ransomeare differently from other cyber crimes? Yes, California and Wyoming

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