How to Use hacker in a Sentence

hacker

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  • My friends and I have been playing golf for years, but we're still just a bunch of hackers.
  • The e-mail story was defined by a hacker and a liar, and the press played along.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • By last spring, the hackers had cut off Nada’s access to the Alp files.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The hackers and programmers of 4Chan were out for kicks.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The idea of doxxing dates back to 1990s hacker culture when anonymity was king.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The cost of renting a room in a hacker house works much like having roommates.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • For starters, the orb might have coding flaws that could let a hacker decipher all the iris scans.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 25 July 2023
  • Reuters was unable to reach the hackers or verify any of their claims.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Here are five ways to think like a hacker, starting today.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
  • To date, the city has not paid the hackers, who were demanding $2 million in ransom.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Charles Evens, the hacker Moore paid to break into email accounts, was sentenced to 25 months.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
  • Or simply take a moment to cheer that, in the case of Euler, the good guys for once prevailed over a Russian hacker.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Reached via Telegram late Thursday, Tea Pot claimed to be the hacker but didn’t respond to questions about the hack.
    — Robert McMillan, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • One of the operations was from the hacker group known as Bitter APT, the report says.
    — Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Enlarge / Artist's rendition of the recent arrest of a 17-year-old hacker in the UK.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2022
  • To be fair, crypto is not the only industry plagued by hackers.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In its first months online, AlphaBay seemed destined to serve much the same hacker clientele.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
  • How did a hacker steal over $600 million from a crypto gaming blockchain?
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2022
  • That said, routers have become a favorite haven for hackers, who often use them to hide the origins of their attacks.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 June 2024
  • Whatever Zoom can do with your data in motion, a hacker can do to that same data in a breach.
    — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
  • It’s protected if a hacker gains access to those servers.
    — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 31 July 2022
  • Microsoft was then able to search its own logs for the master key that the hackers had obtained and block future access.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In a worst-case scenario, a hacker could take control of a CAV with passengers onboard.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Jan. 2024
  • This will reduce the amount of data that is stored in iCloud and potentially exposed to hackers.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The latter is to ensure hackers aren't the ones unlocking the accounts for their own benefit.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 24 July 2023
  • The film was touted for the chemistry between the stars, with Rihanna playing the genius hacker Nine Ball.
    — Time, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The hacker is implicated in a number of breaches, with many of them targeting the FBI.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Keeping your email safe Your email inbox is a hacker’s paradise.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The charges are the latest against foreign hackers that prosecutors say aimed to disrupt U.S. infrastructures.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
  • In April, the hacker group ShinyHunters accessed Ticketmaster’s database.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024

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