hacker
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The Portuguese computer hacker who released documents which helped trigger the Premier League investigation into Manchester City will remain in witness protection after authorities in the country suspended the decision to end it.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
If your Facebook account gets hacked, that hacker has access to everything you’ve shared with Muse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
A website or email can contain hidden prompts telling the bots to ignore instructions and send personal data to hacker accounts instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The OpenAI agents are built for different purposes, but an underappreciated factor in their going hacker mode is that the company’s own staffers were negligent and careless in monitoring their own experiments.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
They were invited to a regular hacker get-together, went once, then never returned.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
In 2024, Russian hackers commandeered residential webcams in Kyiv, including one installed by a condominium association to monitor the neighborhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
The hackers were able to rotate and zoom the camera, allowing them to monitor Russian helicopters, submarines and ships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
“Turn it off,” the meeting leader told his colleagues, in a video later posted online by Ukrainian hackers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
The company told its customers that hackers are in possession of detailed profiles of potentially millions of the company's users - including names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, customer numbers and dates of birth.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
I found a few worlds named after famous hackers, like Woz and Mitnick, but none named after John Draper.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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