The man charged with hacking into the Office of the Director of Public Prose-cutions (ODPP) computers has been granted bail.

Twenty-nine-year-old Phillpot Martin, who is charged under the Cybercrimes Act, was granted $1 million bail when he appeared before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

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Martin is also facing charges of unauthorised access to a computer programme or data, and unlawful possession of a computer for the commission of an offence.

He's to return to court on May 21.

The Crown had opposed the bail application filed by Martin's attorneys Christian and Tom Tavares-Finson.

The Crown is alleging that on January 25 this year, the police received information and went to Martin's home in the Kingston 8 area.

The police conducted a search of the premises, and removed several computer items including hard drives and laptops.

The items were taken to the Organised Crime Investigation Division and an analysis of one of the hard drives was done.

The police say it was discovered that the hard drive contained documents which included work files belonging to an assistant director at the office of the DPP.

The prosecutor said he did not authorise anyone to access the files.

However, Martin's attorneys say he was contracted by the justice ministry under which the DPP's office falls.

Martin is also accused of hacking into Digicel's computer system while he was a computer science student at the University of Technology in 2009.