1
: one that hacks
2
: a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity
a tennis hacker
3
: an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer
4
: a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system
Examples of hacker in a Sentence
My friends and I have been playing golf for years, but we're still just a bunch of hackers.
the company's security experts spent days trying to figure out how a hacker could have gotten past the firewall
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Which is why Google paid hackers $11.8 million in bug bounties across 2024 to find and report them, and regularly issues product security updates as they are uncovered.
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
The intrigue: The takedown deals a major blow to the Russian cybercriminal ecosystem amid questions about whether the U.S. is still committed to fighting Russian hackers.
—Sam Sabin, Axios, 6 Mar. 2025
The threats include foreign governments and hackers jamming GPS signals or even spoofing them, which can produce a false location and send cars, ships, and planes to the wrong location.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2025
The hackers worked for I-Soon, a company involved in a broader industry of private contractors in China that stole data to sell to the Chinese government.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
The intrigue: The takedown deals a major blow to the Russian cybercriminal ecosystem amid questions about whether the U.S. is still committed to fighting Russian hackers.
—Sam Sabin, Axios, 6 Mar. 2025
The threats include foreign governments and hackers jamming GPS signals or even spoofing them, which can produce a false location and send cars, ships, and planes to the wrong location.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 Mar. 2025
The hackers worked for I-Soon, a company involved in a broader industry of private contractors in China that stole data to sell to the Chinese government.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Hacker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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hacker
noun
hack·er
ˈhak-ər 
1
: one that hacks
2
: a person who is unskilled at a particular activity
3
: an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer
4
: a person who illegally gains access to a computer system
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