Minister of Communication, Science and Technology Mohamed Maleeh Jamal has on Sunday met with officers of the Maldives Police Service to discuss the importance of cyber-crime prevention.

The Ministry on Sunday morning revealed via twitter that discussions were held between officers and the Minister to formulate a strategy to collaborate with the Attorney General’s Office to draft cyber laws as well as the growing concern of absence of governing laws.

While the meeting took place, some of the most notable cyber-crimes include hacking and distributed denial of service which is an attack on a single computer system by multiple compromised computer systems which are often infected with a malware.

Specifically, threatening and intimidation via social media platforms such as Facebook, Tumbler and Twitter among many others as well as debit and credit card fraud have become a growing concern in the country.