hacker

noun

hack·er ˈha-kər

Synonyms of hacker next

: one that hacks

: a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity

a tennis hacker

: an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer

: a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system

Example Sentences

My friends and I have been playing golf for years, but we're still just a bunch of hackers. the company's security experts spent days trying to figure out how a hacker could have gotten past the firewall

Recent Examples on the Web The hacker had gone on to compress and share Android malware that had been written by ChatGPT across the web. —

PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2023 With a supermajority, the hacker was able to have the Beanstalk tokens transferred to their own crypto wallet. —

Nina Bambysheva, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022 By Saturday, sentiment seemed to shift on crypto Twitter that the hacker was in fact an insider at FTX. —

Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2022 Once on the network, the hacker was able to gain access to other credentials that provided more widespread access. —

Robert Mcmillan, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022 Plex, the popular streaming-media service, alerted users of a data breach in which a hacker was able to access private information – including usernames and passwords. —

Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Aug. 2022 That hacker was able to reset at least one user’s password and obtain private information about any Twitter user. —

Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022 That hacker was able to reset at least one user’s password and obtain private information about any Twitter user. —

Joseph Menn, Elizabeth Dwoskin And Cat Zakrzewski, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022 Olson — who is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Security at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, and technical director of the University's Eaton Cybersecurity lab — is a white-hat hacker. —

Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022 See More

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