Range and Characteristics of Forged Computer Data in Iranian Law

Along with the rapid development of information and communication technologies, a wide variety of data and electronic documents has been the subject of forgery and distortion. In order to criminalizing of Cyber forgery, Article 6 of the Cyber Crimes Law established "attributable data" as subject of Cyber forgery. Unlike traditional forgery, which the legislator determines writing, handwriting, document, signature, seal and stamped, as the subjects of crime But, the type and characteristics of data in cyber forgery has not been determined in Article 6. This deficiency has created ambiguities in practice. The massive volume and variety of data, on the one hand, and the ambiguity of the concept of "attributable data", on the other, make it difficult to determine whether the data is subject to crime of cyber forgery. In this article, we have tried to explain the characteristics of forged cyber documents and clarify ambiguities in this regard.