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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 16-16-25: Compensatory damages and restitution.

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  1. Title 16 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES
  2. CHAPTER 16 Computer Crime Act

In addition to other civil remedies available, the owner or lessee of a computer, computer system, computer network, computer program, or data may bring a civil action against a person convicted under this chapter for compensatory damages, restitution, and attorney's fees. Compensatory damages and restitution may include:

(1) expenditures reasonably and necessarily incurred by the owner or lessee to verify whether a computer system, computer network, computer program, or data was altered, damaged, or deleted by the access;

(2) costs of repairing or, if necessary, replacing the affected computer, computer system, computer network, computer software, computer program, or data;

(3) lost profits for the period that the computer, computer system, computer network, computer software, computer program, or data was unusable; and

(4) costs of replacing or restoring the data lost or damaged as a result of a violation of this chapter.

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