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hacker

[hak-er] / ˈhæk ər /


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Unusually, the cyber criminals' website where the MAG data is available is hosted on the clear internet and not on the dark net like most other so-called hacker "leak sites".

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

That said, one hacker can wreak no small amount of havoc, as one compromised water system might serve tens of thousands of people.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

An employee at defense contractor IEH Corp. was taken in by a hacker posing as a business prospect, the company said Thursday in a filing with the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Both OpenAI, the hacker, and the victim, Hugging Face, have portrayed the response to this incident as a collaboration.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

I don’t know what Henka Games does when they catch a hacker, but they’ll ban me from the game for sure.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Anthropic’s allegations of distillation come in a report that also describes a range of other types of misuse of its platform—performed by criminal hackers, authoritarian regimes and others.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Within hours the hackers had drained his cryptocurrency accounts of £18,000 of savings and disappeared.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Document storage company Dropbox is informing customers that about 5,000 accounts associated with laptop maker Lenovo were compromised by hackers between Aug. 4 and Aug. 21.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

As a result, the company has added layers of security to reduce the risk of misuse by hackers, or Astra going rogue and attacking targets on its own.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

“I found where the hackers have been. Don’t you want to see?”

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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