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hacker

[hak-er] / ˈhæk ər /


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On the night of 13 October, Azerbaijan's State Service for Special Communications and Information Security said a "foreign hacker group" had attacked more than 100 state websites.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Pinto is the Portuguese computer hacker who tried to bring down City.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The purported hacker has released snippets of the stolen client data—including Römer’s—and threatened to release more unless Revolut pays up, without publicly specifying an amount.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

It sounds freaky when you read about how the OpenAI hacker agents all “talked” to one another on special forums—but all software, generative or not, is communicative by nature.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

In my dream, I thought they were the hacker group, the Coalition of Pity.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

The breach caused the company, Instructure, to temporarily take Canvas offline and interrupted classes, assignments and finals preparations for hundreds of thousands of students and professors as hackers threatened to release their personal data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The hackers also obtained access to unique student identifier numbers as well as information about gender, race or ethnicity, primary language, country of origin and English learner status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Cyber-security experts told the BBC it was an unprecedented move for hackers to effectively transform an app notification system into a "ransom note".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

It later emerged that hackers had obtained more detailed personal information belonging to Asos customers than the retailer initially suggested.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Hideo has indeed hired a few hackers in the past—to help him work out bugs inside Warcross—but they were way more experienced, and probably with no criminal records.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu


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