How to Use hacker in a Sentence
hacker
noun
- My friends and I have been playing golf for years, but we're still just a bunch of hackers.
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Qubit has asked the hacker to return the funds, so far to no avail.
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Khristopher J. Brooks,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 2022
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The e-mail story was defined by a hacker and a liar, and the press played along.
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Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2023
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By last spring, the hackers had cut off Nada’s access to the Alp files.
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David D. Kirkpatrick,
The New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2023
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The hackers and programmers of 4Chan were out for kicks.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2024
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The idea of doxxing dates back to 1990s hacker culture when anonymity was king.
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Darren Orf,
Popular Mechanics,
19 Dec. 2022
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The cost of renting a room in a hacker house works much like having roommates.
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Nitasha Tiku,
Washington Post,
15 Mar. 2023
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In the video of the hacker drinking whiskey, at one point his laptop shows a page on TikTok.
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Joseph Cox,
WIRED,
4 Nov. 2024
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For starters, the orb might have coding flaws that could let a hacker decipher all the iris scans.
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Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune Crypto,
25 July 2023
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Reuters was unable to reach the hackers or verify any of their claims.
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Amrita Khalid,
The Verge,
1 Mar. 2024
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Here are five ways to think like a hacker, starting today.
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Kim Komando,
USA TODAY,
29 Dec. 2022
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To date, the city has not paid the hackers, who were demanding $2 million in ransom.
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Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2024
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Charles Evens, the hacker Moore paid to break into email accounts, was sentenced to 25 months.
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Erin Jensen,
USA TODAY,
27 July 2022
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The hacker emails, those files to everyone in my contact list.
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Quartz Staff,
Quartz,
14 Feb. 2022
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Or simply take a moment to cheer that, in the case of Euler, the good guys for once prevailed over a Russian hacker.
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Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune Crypto,
6 Apr. 2023
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Reached via Telegram late Thursday, Tea Pot claimed to be the hacker but didn’t respond to questions about the hack.
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Robert McMillan,
WSJ,
16 Sep. 2022
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One of the operations was from the hacker group known as Bitter APT, the report says.
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Beatrice Peterson,
ABC News,
4 Aug. 2022
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The hackers are believed to have sent some of the information to Biden's allies.
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Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
19 Dec. 2024
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Enlarge / Artist's rendition of the recent arrest of a 17-year-old hacker in the UK.
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Sam MacHkovech,
Ars Technica,
23 Sep. 2022
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The hacker group Squad303 took its name from the group of pilots, famed for their contribution in the fight against Nazi Germany.
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Bojan Pancevski,
WSJ,
12 Mar. 2022
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The hacker figured out or happened to find your password.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2022
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All the hacker has to do is make a script that installs into the Windows 10 service folders.
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Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
17 Feb. 2022
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Excerpt of a Conti's chat log, leaked by an anonymous hacker in March 2022.
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Dan Patterson,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2022
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To be fair, crypto is not the only industry plagued by hackers.
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Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune Crypto,
11 Sep. 2023
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In its first months online, AlphaBay seemed destined to serve much the same hacker clientele.
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Andy Greenberg,
WIRED,
25 Oct. 2022
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How did a hacker steal over $600 million from a crypto gaming blockchain?
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Kyle Orland,
Ars Technica,
26 Dec. 2022
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That said, routers have become a favorite haven for hackers, who often use them to hide the origins of their attacks.
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Dan Goodin,
Ars Technica,
17 June 2024
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Or could everything a hacker wanted to know be just a few clicks or keystrokes away?
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Leada Gore | [email protected],
al,
6 May 2022
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Your money could get stolen by a hacker, or a borrower could fail to repay their loan.
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Fortune,
9 May 2022
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Even more alarming is the two-month window hackers had to exploit the credit union's systems before being detected.
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report,
Fox News,
19 Dec. 2024
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