The number of cases of tuberculosis in the northeast toinclude in the marketing brochure for his company's new pharmaceutical. He was previously an intern at the Center for Disease Control and knew some of the passwords for the system containing the information, though he never had been granted access himself. If Gunther uses the passwords to access the data and includes it in the brochure, has he committed a crime.

According to the various business law in each country, it is an offence to access data and also putting the same in your brochure without permission from the appropiate quarters

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ayoogunyemi ayoogunyemi · Answer 2 · 2020-04-21T02:48:01+02:00

Answer:

Yes

Explanation:

Unauthorized access is unethical and even a crime . It is act that involves an illegal access to a website , server or a program with a password that is not legally given to one for such a purpose and even without authority for any reason is an unauthorized access.

It attracts different forms of punishment starting from a warning to job termination and criminal charges if the perpetrator get caught

The fact that Gunther had a privilege to know the password does not give him the permission to use it to access the database without a permission and it is criminal.