Examples of hacker in a Sentence
Dell Cameron Andrew Couts, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2024
The hackers and programmers of 4Chan were out for kicks.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Apr. 2024
On March 25, the district’s legal council announced at an emergency meeting that the hackers were asking for $700,000.
—Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2024
The hackers downloaded about 60,000 emails from the State Department alone, department spokesman Matthew Miller has said.
—Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
Their script centered on Neo, a computer hacker who learns that humans have been enslaved in a simulation engineered by artificially intelligent machines.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2024
Bad actors, be they scammers or credential-stealing hackers, thrive in such moments.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
Russian hackers had just taken down Ukraine’s biggest phone network, disconnecting Stefanishyna from Kyiv.
—Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
The other trend involved hackers targeting enterprise software more, rather than mainstream consumer products.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
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14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Hacker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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