as in hacker
a person who illegally gains access to a computer system and sometimes tampers with its information
the bank had to overhaul its online banking system after a cyberpunk broke into the accounts of thousands of customers
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Streaming on Crunchyroll Crunchyroll Also check out: Ghost in the Shell and its sequel film for more existentialism and cyberpunk sci-fi classics.
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Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
Shadowrun took two of the most popular genres at the time—fantasy and cyberpunk—and brought them together that allowed cyborgs to shoot machine guns at dragons.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
There are some great cyberpunk looks mixed in with the elves and dragons for fans of role playing games set in the modern day or galaxies far, far away.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Set in the year 2032, Bubblegum Crisis takes all the 80’s tropes surrounding cyberpunk and tries to do something different and interesting with them.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
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Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
Shadowrun took two of the most popular genres at the time—fantasy and cyberpunk—and brought them together that allowed cyborgs to shoot machine guns at dragons.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
There are some great cyberpunk looks mixed in with the elves and dragons for fans of role playing games set in the modern day or galaxies far, far away.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Set in the year 2032, Bubblegum Crisis takes all the 80’s tropes surrounding cyberpunk and tries to do something different and interesting with them.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cyberpunk
hacker
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The United States and other countries are apprehensive that hackers are now pilfering data to be decrypted by quantum computers within the next ten years.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Last week Microsoft issued patches to its SharePoint Server software after Chinese hackers exploited a vulnerability, gaining access to some clients’ internal files.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
31 July 2025
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“Cyberpunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cyberpunk. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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