How to Use hacker in a Sentence

hacker

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  • My friends and I have been playing golf for years, but we're still just a bunch of hackers.
  • By last spring, the hackers had cut off Nada’s access to the Alp files.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The cost of renting a room in a hacker house works much like having roommates.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • For starters, the orb might have coding flaws that could let a hacker decipher all the iris scans.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 25 July 2023
  • Reuters was unable to reach the hackers or verify any of their claims.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Or simply take a moment to cheer that, in the case of Euler, the good guys for once prevailed over a Russian hacker.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 6 Apr. 2023
  • To be fair, crypto is not the only industry plagued by hackers.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Whatever Zoom can do with your data in motion, a hacker can do to that same data in a breach.
    — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Microsoft was then able to search its own logs for the master key that the hackers had obtained and block future access.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In a worst-case scenario, a hacker could take control of a CAV with passengers onboard.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Jan. 2024
  • This will reduce the amount of data that is stored in iCloud and potentially exposed to hackers.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The latter is to ensure hackers aren't the ones unlocking the accounts for their own benefit.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 24 July 2023
  • The hacker is implicated in a number of breaches, with many of them targeting the FBI.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Keeping your email safe Your email inbox is a hacker’s paradise.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The hackers abused this by taking the open-source versions and adding malicious code into the programming.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 30 Aug. 2023
  • One team of hackers spent those days focused on the lock on the room's door, perhaps its most sensitive piece of technology of all.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • One hacker group is bent on using its creation to destroy the internet.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • At the hacker house, Stallworth saw doctors, students and more congregating in a room with 20 child-sized bunk beds.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • If a server is compromised, accounts are still protected, as the hacker won’t have both sets of keys.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In theory, the payouts from those pools should be clean, with no ties to APT43's hackers—that seems, after all, to be the point of the group's laundering exercise.
    — WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The agency said the names and addresses potentially revealed to the hackers are not sufficient on their own to pose a high risk.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The hackers also breached the email account of Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, the officials said.
    — Peter Alexander, NBC News, 21 July 2023
  • This likely means the hackers have been abusing the flaw through phishing messages or websites, which can be booby-trapped to load malware.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 11 July 2023
  • Camille Harris, of San Diego, asked Wednesday how the department planned to collect and store data from the cameras and protect it from hackers.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • This week, a hacker claiming to have stolen the data posted millions of more records for sale on the platform BreachForums, TechCrunch reports.
    — WIRED, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Braga, Fichtner, and in a smaller role, Dayo Okeniyi as River, an ace hacker living off the grid in a ramshackle compound, provide the movie with much of its juice.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
  • The Justice Department has made several cases against Chinese hackers in the past with the most recent case in 2021.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Some of the biggest attacks have been attributed to Russian or Chinese hackers.
    — Marc Levy, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
  • According to Just Jared, the hackers also promised that the funds were being donated to charity.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Legal Tooling: Law enforcement agencies can use a range of legal tools to stop hacker groups.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023

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