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COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE ACT

Section 6: Trafficking in passwords

Section 6 prohibits transferring to another or intending to transfer passwords or other system access information without authorization. The systems that are affected must impact interstate commerce, foreign commerce or a federal government computer.

There seems to be no criminal liability for receiving password, just in transferring them.

Section 7 Threatening to damage to obtain information from a computer

Section 7 prohibits transmitting communications containing threats or demands.

Prohibited are
1. threats to damage a protected computer
2. threat to obtain information from a protected computer
3. demand for money or another thing of value as extortion for not damaging a computer or repairing the damage the perpetrator had already caused.

A violation does not depend on the individual threatening to actually gain access to the computer

The section applies to the attempt to extort something by the threat of a computer related crime.

It is the attempt to extort that will result in jail time.

Ransomware is currently on the rise.