hacker
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“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
Earlier this year, Amazon discovered that a low-skilled hacker used commercially available AI to breach 600 firewalls.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
And on Wednesday, cybersecurity firm Gambit Security revealed that roughly 150 gigabytes of data were stolen from 10 Mexican government bodies and a single financial institution by a hacker using Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026
The French finance ministry announced on February 18 that a hacker had gained access to a national bank database and consulted information on 1.2 million accounts.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
That was the problem with being a hacker; you automatically assumed the worst in others.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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