Yes of course, and within vandalism there probably are different fines or sentences depending on just how much property you damage.  But if you&#x27;re going to label &quot;anything where some property is damaged&quot; as vandalism then 9&#x2F;11 was  vandalism, right?<p>You also neglected to address arson and the idea that a whole building burned down.  I don&#x27;t think any part of the justice system would seriously suggest that destroying a building and spray painting a building are the same.  I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;d be investigated the same, charged the same, etc.<p>The problem here is that the CFAA has definitions and <i>those definitions are what determine what the crime is</i>.  So yes someone breaking into your Facebook account and posting a &quot;turns out I&#x27;m gay everyone!&quot; comment is -- again according to a strict reading of the law -- just as bad as someone breaking into VISA and forcing them to re-issue all the credit cards in the country.  That&#x27;s because the law doesn&#x27;t distinguish damages or anything like that.  In part that&#x27;s because in reality you don&#x27;t do any <i>actual</i> damage, you just cause people to <i>have to take action to mitigate that your specific knowledge causes problems with their security</i>.<p>This makes sense too, if you break into a bank it might be reasonable to attempt to force you to pay for the repairs to the vault door, but it would not be reasonable to force you to compensate the bank&#x27;s shareholders for the loss of goodwill (and share price!) they suffer because the bank&#x27;s security wasn&#x27;t able to keep you out.