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hacker

[ hak-er ]

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noun

a person or thing that hacks.
Slang. a person who engages in an activity without talent or skill:
weekend hackers on the golf course.
Computers.
1. a person who has a high level of skill in computer technology or programming; a computer expert or enthusiast:
  My brother is a real hacker—he fixed my laptop in no time.
2. a person who circumvents security and breaks into a network, computer, file, etc., often, but not always, with malicious intent: Compare black hat ( def 2 ), gray hat, white hat ( def 2 ).
  A hacker got into my computer remotely and wiped my hard drive!
  The company has hired hackers to test system security.

hacker

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noun

a person that hacks
slang.
a computer fanatic, esp one who through a personal computer breaks into the computer system of a company, government, etc

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hacker¹

First recorded in 1200–50 hacker fordef 1; Middle English (as surname); hack ¹, -er ¹; 1965–70 hacker fordef 2

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A couple of months ago Bybit, the world's second largest cryptocurrency exchange by some estimates, was tricked out of $1.5bn worth of coins by hackers thought to be working for North Korea.

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She filled it in, divulging the username and password, and shortly afterwards the account was taken over by hackers.

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Other public figures with a large number of followers who have been targeted in a similar way by online hackers recently include BBC journalist Nick Robinson.

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But there's no guarantee that Mr Nazarovas was the only hacker to have found the image stash.

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The unidentified hackers were able to gain access to the information by using a customer's account that did not have sufficient protection in the form of multi-factor authentication.

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Hackensack hackery

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