hacker

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It is what’s known as a privilege escalation exploit, and if it were chained together with other attacks it could be used by a hacker to seize control of the computer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The disruption at Instructure follows a breach disclosed last week in which a hacker group claimed it stole hundreds of millions of records tied to students and employees at roughly 9,000 schools in the U.S.,

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

“Whether or not Mythos is a hacker superweapon really is immaterial to the conversation,” says Dave Lewis, global advisory chief information-security officer at the password-manager developer 1Password.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

In 2023 an 18-year-old British hacker called Arion Kurtaj was given an indefinite hospital order after hacking into the company and stealing data, source code and video clips of the unfinished GTA 6 game.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

I read over my notes about John Draper, aka Captain Crunch, and the toy plastic whistle that had made him famous in the annals of hacker lore.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline