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
Pinto is the Portuguese computer hacker who tried to bring down City.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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
Well, that, and also because it was completely awesome, with an old-school teenage computer hacker as the protagonist.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Internet-connected cameras have become a background fixture of daily life: security systems, doorbells, traffic cameras, baby monitors—and potentially any of them are vulnerable to snooping, say cybersecurity experts and hackers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
At first he thought his wife was using the two-way function but quickly realized that hackers had gotten into his system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
The hackers tracked a Russian military helicopter to a location near a local airport where they discovered a previously unknown Russian air base.
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’ve got to tell Bando that I’ve found Alice’s camp and a site where falconers, if not the hackers, have been.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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