Synonyms of hackers

hackers

noun

plural of hacker

1

as in crackers

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

the company's security experts spent days trying to figure out how a hacker could have gotten past the firewall

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crackers
• cyberpunks
• geeks
• techies
• technocrats
• technophiles
• phishers
• gearheads
• computerists

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• technophobes
• computerphobes

2

as in amateurs

a person who lacks experience and competence in an art or science

weekend golf hackers who are there mainly for the social networking

Synonyms & Similar Words

• amateurs
• kids
• beginners
• hacks
• novices
• newcomers
• freshmen
• triflers
• inexperts
• learners
• jacklegs
• rookies
• tyros
• greenhorns
• neophytes
• tenderfeet

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• experts
• craftsmen
• hands
• masters
• adepts
• sharks
• past masters
• sharps
• aces
• virtuosos
• wizards
• veterans
• maestros
• vets
• crackerjacks
• old hands
• old-timers
• whizzes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hackers

An internal memo circulated to staffers said the FBI was operating under the presumption that hackers stole data pertaining to all bureau employees, a source told Reuters. — Eric MacK, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Now copyright lawsuits, hackers and surveillance states threaten to burn it down. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026

Browsers have become a common target of hackers looking to steal sensitive information, especially in hybrid work environments. — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

The Justice Department has a long history of investigating and prosecuting hackers who break into a private company's network. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

Not just the supposedly existential risk that AI leaders started recently claiming required a slowdown, but also risks from bad actors like hackers or terrorists wielding AI to attack either country’s infrastructure. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026

Levi later gained access to a cache of Qatari documents from roughly the same period, which Syrian hackers had taken from the offices of the Sheikh, among others. — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Greg Linares, a cybersecurity researcher at Persona, a company that helps authenticate users, said that Hacktron’s finding would have given China or other countries’ elite hackers the ability to break into OpenAI systems. — Kevin Collier, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2026

The use of decoys inside a network to trap hackers isn’t new. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 16 Sep. 2026