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
  • The hackers stole the funds from Bybit’s Ethereum stash.
    — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The hacker stole the access code and drained about 30% of its total funds.
    — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • This is now one of the hacker's go-to tools to get a foot in the door of the enterprise networks.
    — Vince Marino, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • In 1990s Berlin, an artist and a hacker invented a new way to see the world.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 8 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • The chat rooms often include the group’s logo or the hacker’s avatar, Phillips said.
    — Author: Ellen Nakashima, Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2021
  • 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
  • Just as Anthony had said in his message to me, his spokesman was claiming the photo was the work of a hacker.
    — Huma Abedin, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2021
  • One of the operations was from the hacker group known as Bitter APT, the report says.
    — Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • But hacker groups could still retaliate on Iran’s behalf.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 June 2025
  • So far, there haven’t been any new breaches, but hackers linked to Iran have reportedly been talking openly online about retaliation, one cybersecurity expert said.
    — Jade Walker, CNN Money, 25 June 2025

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