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.
• Qubit has asked the hacker to return the funds, so far to no avail.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2022
• That story took a strange turn when the hacker gave back all the funds.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• 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
• In the eyes of a hacker, that’s a great way into your home’s network.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Her hacker friend, if there is any such thing as friendship.
  — Bailey Richards, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
• The breach came to light when an anonymous hacker tipped off the Chaos Computer Club.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
• The hacker acquires some skill jumping in and out of that grid, from the world of humans into the world of machines.
  — Dan Charnas, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2022
• 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
• The hacker emails, those files to everyone in my contact list.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 14 Feb. 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
• The hackers are believed to have sent some of the information to Biden's allies.
  — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
• Enlarge / Artist's rendition of the recent arrest of a 17-year-old hacker in the UK.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2022
• The hacker group Squad303 took its name from the group of pilots, famed for their contribution in the fight against Nazi Germany.
  — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
• The hacker figured out or happened to find your password.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• The student, who lives on Tressel Street, said the hacker/fraudster forced him to record two videos supporting the scheme.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
• The big picture: Ransomware gangs are more than just a bunch of young hackers coding in their basements.
  — Sam Sabin, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
• While exact numbers are still unclear, the hacker has claimed the figure to be 62 million.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2025
• No information was deleted, and the hacker did not lock any of the data or affect the provider's daily operations, CHC added.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025