How to Use hacker in a Sentence

hacker

noun

• 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
• In the video of the hacker drinking whiskey, at one point his laptop shows a page on TikTok.
  — Joseph Cox, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Or could everything a hacker wanted to know be just a few clicks or keystrokes away?
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 6 May 2022
• Your money could get stolen by a hacker, or a borrower could fail to repay their loan.
  — Fortune, 9 May 2022
• 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
• That way, your antivirus software can detect threats in real-time, and a hacker would have to gain access to your phone and your Mac to execute any transactions.
  — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
• But that’s not all; Black Friday is a fiesta for hackers, too, and the perfect time for social engineering attacks!
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024