A new report released today by the Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRNN) finds the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA) is “crying out for reform”.

Lynne Owens, Director General of the National Crime Agency, used an interview with the Mail on Sunday to suggest that the Computer misuse act had failed to keep pace with technology.

The chief executive of Insinia Security - which demonstrated a security flaw in Twitter by hijacking the accounts of Eamonn Holmes and Louis Theroux - has denied breaking the law and called the Computer Misuse Act not “fit for purpose.”