<P> The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is a United States cybersecurity bill that was enacted in 1986 as an amendment to existing computer fraud law (18 U.S.C. § 1030), which had been included in the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 . The law prohibits accessing a computer without authorization, or in excess of authorization . </P> <P> The original 1984 bill was enacted in response to concern that computer - related crimes might go unpunished . The House Committee Report to the original computer crime bill characterized the 1983 techno - thriller film WarGames--in which a young Matthew Broderick breaks into a U.S. military supercomputer programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war and unwittingly almost starts World War III--as "a realistic representation of the automatic dialing and access capabilities of the personal computer ." </P>

Who investigates the violation of the federal computer fraud and abuse act of 1984