Is scanning stations for missions illegal

[liamlim_123]

I literally just started a new game, I have nothing in cargo and no illegal wares as I literally just started and did not even leave the sector Black Hole Sun in this specific case, I did not even open any lock box or even dock at any station yet. I was just scanning stations to get some missions. I do not even shoot or anything, I literally just searched for data leaks to get some missions.

Suddenly all police in Black Hole Sun gets hostile and they want to kill me. Maybe it could be communicated to a player a bit better that searching for data leaks is illegal activity and will get you killed?

In some of my other play throughs where I get to middle game and even have some trading ships I noticed the same thing, police suddenly turns hostile and they want to kill all my ships. Maybe I misunderstood something and I am doing some other illegal activity I am not aware of? If police wants to kill me then I would at least like to know WHY. I am trying to figure that out but I literally have no idea. Maybe it's illegal to be too close to some modules of the station?

[Alan Phipps]

Outside of specific engineered plot situations, station scanning is not illegal.

I suspect that other reasons for the hostility will apply, perhaps ship captains carrying illegal inventory possibly picked up by accident, through collateral damage from defensive fire, from your ships firing on harassing pirates currently cloaked as another faction neutral/friendly to sector authorities, or ships jumping away during scans, etc.

[surferx]

When I use more than one EMP bomb the station reacts as if attacked.

[Alan Phipps]

The OP scanning for signal leaks to get missions doesn't involve EMP bombs though.

[surferx]

Of course, I was thinking about creating signal leaks for blueprints, etc.