exfiltration
Example Sentences
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As the aviator hid from Iranian forces, the agency spread false word inside the country that the U.S. military had already located the downed airman and were preparing to move him overland for exfiltration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
The podcast for the first time identified the second CIA officer who accompanied Mendez, naming him as agency linguist and exfiltration specialist Ed Johnson.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
"We are lucky there hasn't been any exfiltration of data because that would have been embarrassing."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023
Multiple officials said the attack was targeted at individual email accounts, rather than a large-scale exfiltration of data, which Chinese hackers are suspected of having done before.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
Also, MI6 made it clear that exfiltration was for Gordievsky alone: He would have to leave his wife and two daughters behind, to an uncertain fate.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
