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 company reported a personal data breach a few days later before, on 26 July 2022, South Staffordshire found a ransom note that the hacker had unsuccessfully attempted to send to certain members of staff.

From BBC • May 12, 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

It had three holes across the top, and I covered the third one to generate the 2600-hertz tone that had made this whistle famous in the annals of hacker history.

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